Seasonal prevalence of lyme disease spirochetes in a heterothermic mammal, the edible dormouse (glis glis)

Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 80, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 3615-3621

  Fietz, Joanna ^a   Tomiuk, Jürgen ^b   Matuschka, Franz Rainer ^c,d   Richterc, Dania ^c,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^e TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; MAMMALS;

BORRELIA; LYME DISEASE; SEASONALITY; SKIN TISSUE; STUDY SITES; TRANSMISSION CYCLES;

BACTERIA;

ANIMAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; FEMALE; GENETICS; GERMANY; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; RODENT; SEASON; SPIROCHETE; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LYME DISEASE; MALE; RODENTIA; SEASONS; SPIROCHAETALES;

EID: 84901293956     PISSN: 00992240     EISSN: 10985336     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/AEM.00251-14     Document Type: Article

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