Leptospirosis as a tick-borne disease? detection of leptospira spp. in ixodes ricinus ticks in eastern Poland

Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 656-659

  Wójcik Fatla, Angelina ^a   Zajac, Violetta ^a   Cisak, Ewa ^a   Sroka, Jacek ^a,b   Sawczyn, Anna ^a   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

^b NATIONAL VETERINARY RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Eastern poland; Ixodes ricinus; Leptospira spp.; PCR

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM CARRIER; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DNA ISOLATION; FLOODING; INFECTION RATE; IXODES RICINUS; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIRA BORGPETERSENII; LEPTOSPIRA INTERROGANS; LEPTOSPIRA KIRSCHNERI; LEPTOSPIROSIS; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITE EXAMINATION; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SPIROCHETE;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; COINFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; FLOODS; HUMANS; IXODES; LEPTOSPIRA; LEPTOSPIROSIS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NYMPH; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; LEPTOSPIRA;

EID: 84871572150     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: 18982263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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