Seasonal activity and tick-borne pathogen infection rates of Ixodes ricinus ticks in Hungary

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 90-94

  Egyed, László ^a   Élo, Péter ^a   Sréter Lancz, Zsuzsanna ^b   Széll, Zoltán ^c   Balogh, Zsuzsanna ^d   Sréter, Tamás ^c  

^a Veterinary Medical Research Institute Hungarian Academy of Science   (Hungary)

^b CAO FFSD   (Hungary)

^c CENTRAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Hungary)

^d NATIONAL CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Ixodes ricinus; Prevalence; Seasonality; Tick borne pathogens

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BABESIA MICROTI; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BIOTOPE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; HUNGARY; HYBRIDIZATION; INFECTION RATE; IXODES RICINUS; LARVA; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPRING; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BACTERIA; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; HUNGARY; IXODES; SEASONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BABESIA DIVERGENS; BARTONELLA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 84859513193     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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