Prevalence, diversity, and load of Borrelia species in ticks that have fed on humans in regions of Sweden and Åland islands, Finland with different Lyme borreliosis incidences

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2013, Pages

  Wilhelmsson, Peter ^a   Lindblom, Pontus ^a   Fryland, Linda ^a   Ernerudh, Jan ^a   Forsberg, Pia ^a,b   Lindgren, Per Eric ^a,c  

^a LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Department of Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine   (Sweden)

^c RYHOV COUNTY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BACTERIAL LOAD; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; BORRELIA SPIELMANII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; IXODES RICINUS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SWEDEN; TICK BITE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; MICROBIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK; TRANSMISSION;

BACTERIAL RNA; RNA 16S;

ANIMALS; BACTERIAL LOAD; BORRELIA; FEMALE; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SWEDEN; TICKS;

EID: 84895917484     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081433     Document Type: Article

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