Songbirds as general transmitters but selective amplifiers of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genotypes in Ixodes rinicus ticks

Environmental Microbiology

Volumn 16, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 2859-2868

  Heylen, Dieter ^a   Matthysen, Erik ^a   Fonville, Manoj ^b   Sprong, Hein ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AVES; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA SPIELMANII; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODES; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; MAMMALIA; PARUS MAJOR; PASSERI;

ANIMAL; BORRELIA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; SONGBIRD; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; GENOTYPE; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; SONGBIRDS;

EID: 84906944444     PISSN: 14622912     EISSN: 14622920     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.12304     Document Type: Article

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