Synanthropic Birds Associated with High Prevalence of Tick-Borne Rickettsiae and with the First Detection of Rickettsia aeschlimannii in Hungary

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 77-83

  Hornok, Sándor ^a   Csörgo, Tibor ^b,c   De La Fuente, José ^d,e   Gyuranecz, Miklós ^f   Privigyei, Csaba ^c   Meli, Marina L ^g   Kreizinger, Zsuzsa ^f   Gönczi, Eniko ^g   Fernández De Mera, Isabel G ^d,h   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^g  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^c Ócsa Bird Ringing Station   (Hungary)

^d INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIÓN EN RECURSOS CINEGÉTICOS IREC CSIC UCLM JCCM   (Spain)

^e OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^h UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Borrelia; Francisella; Rickettsia; Tick borne pathogens; Urban birds

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BIRD; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COXIELLA BURNETII; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENOTYPE; HUNGARY; HYALOMMA MARGINATUM MARGINATUM; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA AESCHLIMANNII; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SPRING; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK INFESTATION;

ANIMALS; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; HUNGARY; RICKETTSIA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TICK INFESTATIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS;

EID: 84873386999     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1032     Document Type: Article

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