Tick-borne pathogens in ticks feeding on migratory passerines in western part of Estonia

Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 443-448

  Geller, Julia ^a,b   Nazarova, Lidia ^a,b   Katargina, Olga ^a   Leivits, Agu ^c   Järvekülg, Lilian ^b   Golovljova, Irina ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^c Radiation Safety Department   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Bird; Borrelia; Ixodidae; Reservoir; TBEV; tick; Tick borne pathogen

Indexed keywords

DNA; BACTERIAL DNA; VIRUS RNA;

ACROCEPHALUS; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; DNA SEQUENCE; ESTONIA; IXODES RICINUS; MIGRATORY SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SONGBIRD; SUMMER; SYLVIA; TICK; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; TICK INFESTATION; TURDUS; ANIMAL; BIRD DISEASE; CHEMISTRY; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; TICK INFESTATIONS; TRANSMISSION; VETERINARY; VIROLOGY;

ACROCEPHALUS; ACROCEPHALUS PALUSTRIS; ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; AVES; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; PARUS; PARUS MAJOR; RODENTIA; SYLVIA; TICK-BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; TURDUS; TURDUS ILIACUS; TURDUS MERULA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BIRD DISEASES; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DNA, BACTERIAL; EHRLICHIOSIS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; ESTONIA; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; NYMPH; PASSERIFORMES; RNA, VIRAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 84879896571     PISSN: 15303667     EISSN: 15577759     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2012.1054     Document Type: Article

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