Human exposure to tickborne relapsing fever spirochete borrelia miyamotoi, the Netherlands

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 20, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1244-1245

  Fonville, Manoj ^a   Friesema, Ingrid H M ^a   Hengeveld, Paul D ^a   van Leeuwen, Arieke Docters ^a   Jahfari, Seta ^a   Harms, Margriet G ^a   van Vliet, Arnold J H ^a   Hofhuis, Agnetha ^a   van Pelt, Wilfrid ^b   Sprong, Hein ^a   van den Wijngaard, Cees C ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

BORRELIA INFECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FLAVIVIRUS INFECTION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MORBIDITY; NETHERLANDS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; ANIMAL; BORRELIA; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; SPIROCHETE; TICK;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTIONS; HUMANS; NETHERLANDS; RELAPSING FEVER; SPIROCHAETALES; TICKS;

EID: 84902824191     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2007.131525     Document Type: Letter

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