Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus in Ixodes ricinus ticks in northern Europe with particular reference to Southern Sweden

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Pettersson, John H O ^a   Golovljova, Irina ^b   Vene, Sirkka ^c   Jaenson, Thomas G T ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH DEVELOPMENT   (Estonia)

^c SWEDISH INSTITUTE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Denmark; Finland; Ixodes ricinus; Minimum infection rate; Norway; Real time PCR; Sweden; TBE; Tick borne encephalitis virus; Virus prevalence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DENMARK; EUROPE; FEMALE; FINLAND; HOST; INFECTION RATE; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; MINIMUM INFECTION RATE; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; NYMPH; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SWEDEN; TICK; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; ANIMAL; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; GEOGRAPHY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; PARASITE VECTOR; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEASON; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

VIRUS RNA;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; DENMARK; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; FINLAND; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; IXODES; MALE; NORWAY; NYMPH; PREVALENCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, VIRAL; SEASONS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84898446053     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-102     Document Type: Article

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