Exploring gaps in our knowledge on Lyme borreliosis spirochaetes - Updates on complex heterogeneity, ecology, and pathogenicity

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2013, Pages 11-25

  Franke, Jan ^a   Hildebrandt, Anke ^a   Dorn, Wolfram ^a  

^a FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borrelia; Coinfections; Genospecies; Lyme borreliosis; Reservoir hosts; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ASIA; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BAVARIENSIS; BORRELIA BISSETTII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA JAPONICA; BORRELIA KURTENBACHII; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA SPIELMANII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; EUROPE; GENOTYPE; LYME DISEASE; MIXED INFECTION; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; PATHOGENICITY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SHORT SURVEY; SPIROCHETE; TICK BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; GENOTYPE; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; TICKS; WORLD HEALTH;

BORRELIA; IXODIDA; SPIROCHAETACEAE; SPIROCHAETALES; SPIROCHAETES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84872595205     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.06.007     Document Type: Short Survey

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