Trends in surveillance data of human Lyme borreliosis from six federal states in eastern Germany, 2009-2012

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 219-224

  Wilking, Hendrik ^a   Stark, Klaus ^a  

^a ROBERT KOCH INSTITUTE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Epidemiologic studies; Germany; Lyme borreliosis; Lyme neuroborreliosis; Risk factors; Tick borne disease

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CHILD; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; ERYTHEMA CHRONICUM MIGRANS; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GERMANY; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MENINGITIS; NEURITIS; NEURITIS CRANIALIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEASONAL VARIATION; ADOLESCENT; AGED; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SEASON; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TIME; VETERINARY;

BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; IXODIDA;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LYME DISEASE; LYME NEUROBORRELIOSIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS; SEASONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84897426617     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2013.10.010     Document Type: Article

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