Infections and coinfections of questing Ixodes ricinus ticks by emerging zoonotic pathogens in Western Switzerland

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 78, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 4606-4612

  Lommano, Elena ^a   Bertaiola, Luce ^a   Dupasquier, Christèle ^a   Gern, Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CO-INFECTIONS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; PATHOGENIC SPECIES; SWITZERLAND; WESTERN SWITZERLAND;

BACTERIA; VIRUSES;

PATHOGENS;

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; ENCEPHALITIS; HEALTH RISK; INTERMEDIATE HOST; PARASITE INFESTATION; PATHOGEN; PROTOZOAN; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPECIES DIVERSITY; TICK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALS; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; DNA, BACTERIAL; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWITZERLAND;

SWITZERLAND;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BABESIA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA SPIELMANII; CANDIDATUS NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 84864082327     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.07961-11     Document Type: Article

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