Co-infection of Borrelia afzelii and Bartonella spp. in bank voles from a suburban forest

Comparative Immunology, Microbiology and Infectious Diseases

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 583-589

  Buffet, Jean Philippe ^a   Marsot, Maud ^b,c   Vaumourin, Elise ^a,b   Gasqui, Patrick ^b   Masséglia, Sébastien ^b   Marcheteau, Elie ^a   Huet, Dominique ^a   Chapuis, Jean Louis ^c   Pisanu, Benoit ^c   Ferquel, Elisabeth ^d   Halos, Lénaïg ^e   Vourc'h, Gwenaël ^b   Vayssier Taussat, Muriel ^a  

^a INRA   (France)

^b EPIA   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

^e BOEHRINGER INGELHEIM PHARMA GMBH AND CO KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bank voles (Myodes glareolus); Bartonella spp.; Borrelia afzelii; Co infection; Diversity

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL DISEASE; ARTICLE; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA DOSHIAE; BARTONELLA GRAHAMII; BARTONELLA TAYLORII; BARTONELLOSIS; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA INFECTION; CLADISTICS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREST; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIVERSITY; VOLE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA INFECTIONS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; COINFECTION; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FRANCE; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; TREES;

ANIMALIA; BARTONELLA; BARTONELLA DOSHIAE; BARTONELLA GRAHAMII; BARTONELLA TAYLORII; BORRELIA AFZELII; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; MURIDAE; RODENTIA;

EID: 84868490966     PISSN: 01479571     EISSN: 18781667     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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