Rodent species as natural reservoirs of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in different habitats of Ixodes ricinus in The Netherlands

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 452-458

  Gassner, Fedor ^a,b   Takken, Willem ^a   Plas, Carin Lombaers van der ^a   Kastelein, Pieter ^a   Hoetmer, Arno J ^b   Holdinga, Maarten ^a   van Overbeek, Leonard S ^a  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Apodemus sylvaticus; Borrelia afzelii; Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; Ixodes ricinus; Myodes glareolus; Reservoir host; Rodent

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM EXAMINATION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE CARRIER; EAR BIOPSY; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RISK; IXODES RICINUS; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MYODES GLAREOLUS; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RODENT; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; EAR; ECOSYSTEM; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; MURINAE; PARASITE VECTOR; PARASITOLOGY; RODENT DISEASE; TICK INFESTATION;

APODEMUS SYLVATICUS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; RODENTIA; SPIROCHAETES; VERTEBRATA;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; ARTHROPOD VECTORS; ARVICOLINAE; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA, BACTERIAL; EAR; ECOSYSTEM; HUMANS; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MURINAE; NETHERLANDS; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; RODENT DISEASES; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 84883208449     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.11.017     Document Type: Article

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