Birds as potential reservoirs of tick-borne pathogens: First evidence of bacteraemia with Rickettsia helvetica

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Hornok, Sándor ^a   Kováts, Dávid ^b,c   Csörg, Tibor ^c,d   Meli, Marina L ^e   Gönczi, Enik ^e   Hadnagy, Zsófia ^a   Takács, Nóra ^a   Farkas, Róbert ^a   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^e  

^a SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^b Department of Evolutionary Zoology and Human Biology ^*  (Hungary)

^c Bird Ringing Station   (Hungary)

^d EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis; Ground feeding birds; Migratory birds; Rickettsia helvetica; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; AUTUMN; BIRD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; HAEMAPHYSALIS; HAEMAPHYSALIS CONCINNA; HYALOMMA; IXODES RICINUS; MIGRATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIACEAE INFECTION; SPRING; TICK INFESTATION; ANIMAL; BACTEREMIA; BIRD DISEASES; BLOOD; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUNGARY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; VETERINARY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BACTEREMIA; BIRD DISEASES; BIRDS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; HUNGARY; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA INFECTIONS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84898486705     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-128     Document Type: Article

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