Borrelia miyamotoi Infections among Wild Rodents Show Age and Month Independence and Correlation with Ixodes persulcatus Larval Attachment in Hokkaido, Japan

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 92-97

  Taylor, Kyle R ^a   Takano, Ai ^b   Konnai, Satoru ^a   Shimozuru, Michito ^a   Kawabata, Hiroki ^b   Tsubota, Toshio ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Borrelia; Ixodes persulcatus; relapsing fever; ticks; vectors Lyme disease

Indexed keywords

AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; IXODES PERSULCATUS; JAPAN; LYME DISEASE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; URINALYSIS;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BORRELIA; IXODES; JAPAN; PLANT EXTRACTS; RODENT DISEASES; RODENTIA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84873394012     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1027     Document Type: Article

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