Host and pathogen DNA identification in blood meals of nymphal Ixodes ricinus ticks from forest parks and rural forests of Poland

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 543-555

  Wodecka, Beata ^a   Rymaszewska, Anna ^a   Skotarczak, Bogumila ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Anaplasma; Blood meal; Borrelia; Ixodes ricinus; Reservoir; Rickettsia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; DNA;

ANAPLASMA; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BORRELIA; DEER; DISEASE CARRIER; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; HOST PATHOGEN INTERACTION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; NYMPH; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; RICKETTSIA; SWINE;

ANAPLASMA; ANIMALS; BORRELIA; DEER; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HOST-PATHOGEN INTERACTIONS; IXODES; NYMPH; RICKETTSIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 84894476454     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-013-9763-x     Document Type: Article

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