Abundance of Ixodes ricinus and prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in the nature reserve Siebengebirge, Germany, in comparison to three former studies from 1978 onwards

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Schwarz, Alexandra ^a,b   Hönig, Václav ^a,c   Vavruková, Zuzana ^a,c   Grubhoffer, Libor ^a,c   Balczun, Carsten ^b   Albring, Antje ^b   Schaub, Günter A ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Borrelia lusitaniae; Borrelia prevalence; Ixodes ricinus; Multiple infections; Siebengebirge; Tick density

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENOTYPE; GERMANY; IXODES RICINUS; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; VEGETATION;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DNA, BACTERIAL; GERMANY; IXODES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 84869217138     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-268     Document Type: Review

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