Molecular screening for Bartonella henselae and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato co-existence within Ixodes ricinus populations in central and eastern parts of Poland

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 451-456

  Sytykiewicz, Hubert ^a   Karbowiak, Grzegorz ^b   Werszko, Joanna ^b   Czerniewicz, Paweł ^a   Sprawka, Iwona ^a   Mitrus, Joanna ^a  

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

^b W STEFA SKI INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Bartonella henselae; Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Co infection; Ixodes ricinus; Molecular diagnostics

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL GENE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CITRATE SYNTHASE GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLAGELLIN GENE; FOREST; IMAGO; INFECTION RATE; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; OUTER SURFACE PROTEIN A GENE; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUBURBAN AREA; URBAN AREA;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COINFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NYMPH; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

BARTONELLA HENSELAE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 84866660234     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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