Molecular evidence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microti co-infections in Ixodes ricinus ticks in central-eastern region of Poland

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-49

  Sytykiewicz, Hubert ^a   Karbowiak, Grzegorz ^b   Hapunik, Joanna ^b   Szpechciński, Adam ^c   Supergan Marwicz, Marta ^d   Goławska, Sylwia ^a   Sprawka, Iwona ^a   Czerniewicz, Paweł ^a  

^a SIEDLCE UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Poland)

^b W STEFA SKI INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Poland)

^c NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS AND LUNG DISEASES RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Babesia microti; Co infection; Ixodes ricinus; Molecular diagnostics

Indexed keywords

GENOMIC DNA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIA MICROTI INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECOSYSTEM; FEMALE; FOREST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EHRLICHIOSIS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; MALE; NYMPH; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BABESIA MICROTI; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 84859307236     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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