Serological survey in persons occupationally exposed to tick-borne pathogens in cases of co-infections with Borrelia burgdorferi, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Bartonella spp. and Babesia microti

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 271-274

  Chmielewska Badora, Jolanta ^a   Moniuszk, Anna ^b   Zukiewicz Sobczak, Wioletta ^a   Zwoliński, Jacek ^a   Piatek, Jacek ^a,c   Pancewicz, Sławomir ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF BIALYSTOK   (Poland)

^c POZNAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Babesia microti; Bartonella spp.; Borrelia burgdorferi; Co infection; Occupationally exposed; Seroepidemiology; Tick borne

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLOSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FORESTRY; HUMAN; HUMAN GRANULOCYTIC ANAPLASMOSIS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; LYME DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MIXED INFECTION; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; SEROLOGY;

ADULT; AGRICULTURE; ANTIBODIES, BACTERIAL; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; BABESIA MICROTI; BABESIOSIS; BLOOD DONORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COINFECTION; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; FORESTRY; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIA; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULIN M; LYME DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BABESIA MICROTI; BARTONELLA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDA;

EID: 84863534884     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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