Tick-borne pathogen - reversed and conventional discovery of disease

Frontiers in Public Health

Volumn 2, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Tijsse Klasen, Ellen ^a   Koopmans, Marion P G ^a,b   Sprong, Hein ^a  

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

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Borrelia miyamotoi; Emerging diseases; Ixodes ricinus; Neoehrlichia mikurensis; Public health; Rickettsia; Tick borne pathogens

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906928007     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22962565     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpubh.2014.00073     Document Type: Review

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