Prevalences of tick-borne encephalitis virus and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Ixodes ricinus populations of the Rhine-Main region, Germany

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 207-213

  Bingsohn, Linda ^a   Beckert, Annika ^a   Zehner, Richard ^a,b   Kuch, Ulrich ^b,c   Oehme, Rainer ^d   Kraiczy, Peter ^a,b   Amendt, Jens ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FRANKFURT   (Germany)

^b BIODIVERSITY AND CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTRE BIK F   (Germany)

^c SENCKENBERG DEUTSCHES ENTOMOLOGISCHES INSTITUT   (Germany)

^d Baden Wuerttemberg State Health Office   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Ixodes ricinus; OspA; Rhine Main region; Tick borne encephalitis virus

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BAVARIENSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA SPIELMANII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; GENE; GERMANY; HOST; INFECTION RATE; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; OSPA GENE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DEMOGRAPHY; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; GERMANY; IXODES; RNA, VIRAL;

ACARI; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA SPIELMANII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS;

EID: 84875257918     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.11.012     Document Type: Article

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