Epidemiology of Tick-Borne Borreliosis in Morocco

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Diatta, Georges ^a   Souidi, Yassine ^b,c   Granjon, Laurent ^a   Arnathau, Céline ^d   Durand, Patrick ^d   Chauvancy, Gilles ^a   Mané, Youssouph ^a   Sarih, M'hammed ^c   Belghyti, Driss ^b   Renaud, François ^a   Trape, Jean François ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (Senegal)

^b IBN TOFAIL UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

^c Institut Pasteur du Maroc   (Morocco)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA CROCIDURAE; BORRELIA HISPANICA; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA MERIONESI; CHILD; EVOLUTIONARY HOMOLOGY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; INFANT; INSECTIVORE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAMMAL; MICROSCOPY; MOROCCO; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ORNITHODOROS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PREVALENCE; RODENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMALS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOROCCO; ORNITHODOROS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84866943843     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001810     Document Type: Article

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