Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato prevalence in tick populations in Estonia

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Geller, Julia ^a,b   Nazarova, Lidia ^a,b   Katargina, Olga ^a   Golovljova, Irina ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Ixodes; Lyme disease; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; ESTONIA; GENETIC TRAIT; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODES RICINUS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; TICK;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ESTONIA; HUMANS; IXODES; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODES; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA;

EID: 84880016995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-6-202     Document Type: Article

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