Spatiotemporal dynamics of emerging pathogens in questing Ixodes ricinus

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2013, Pages

  Coipan, Elena Claudia ^a,b   Jahfari, Setareh ^a   Fonville, Manoj ^a   Maassen, Catharina B ^a,b   van der Giessen, Joke ^a,b   Takken, Willem ^b   Takumi, Katsuhisa ^a   Sprong, Hein ^a,b  

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

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Babesia; Borrelia burgdorferi; Candidatus neoehrlichia mikurensis; Ixodes ricinus; Rickettsia conorii; Rickettsia helvetica; Vector borne disease

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANAPLASMATACEAE; ARTICLE; BABESIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; HUMAN; IXODES RICINUS; MICROBIAL IDENTIFICATION; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MIXED INFECTION; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; SEASONAL POPULATION DYNAMICS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; ANIMAL; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; NETHERLANDS; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; BACTERIUM; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CANDIDATUS NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; RICKETTSIA CONORII; VECTOR-BORNE DISEASE;

ANIMALS; BABESIA; BACTERIA; BIODIVERSITY; IXODES; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NETHERLANDS; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; BABESIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CANDIDATUS NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; IXODES RICINUS; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; VECTOR-BORNE DISEASE;

EID: 84891460254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2013.00036     Document Type: Article

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