Circumstantial evidence for an increase in the total number and activity of borrelia-infected ixodes ricinus in the Netherlands

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Sprong, Hein ^a   Hofhuis, Agnetha ^a   Gassner, Fedor ^a,b   Takken, Willem ^b   Jacobs, Frans ^b   Van Vliet, Arnold J H ^b   Van Ballegooijen, Marijn ^a   Van Der Giessen, Joke ^a   Takumi, Katsuhisa ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Ixodes ricinus; Lyme disease; Population dynamics; The Netherlands

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIELLA; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFECTIVE POPULATION SIZE; FEMALE; IXODES RICINUS; LAND USE; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GENETICS; TEMPERATURE; WILDLIFE; ANIMAL; BIRD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PHYSIOLOGY; RODENT;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BIRDS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; ECOSYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; NETHERLANDS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RODENTIA;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84871028316     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-5-294     Document Type: Article

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