Tick surveillance for relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi in Hokkaido, Japan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 8, 2014, Pages

  Takano, Ai ^a   Toyomane, Kochi ^b   Konnai, Satoru ^b   Ohashi, Kazuhiko ^b   Nakao, Minoru ^c   Ito, Takuya ^d   Andoh, Masako ^e   Maeda, Ken ^a   Watarai, Masahisa ^a   Sato, Kozue ^f   Kawabata, Hiroki ^f,g  

^a YAMAGUCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^d HOKKAIDO INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^e KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^f NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^g GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMAL; BORRELIA; BORRELIA INFECTION; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; JAPAN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY; TICK; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; PHYLOGENY; RELAPSING FEVER; TICKS;

EID: 84905845430     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0104532     Document Type: Article

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