Tick-borne pathogens in ticks collected from breeding and migratory birds in Switzerland

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 871-882

  Lommano, Elena ^a   Dvořák, Charles ^b   Vallotton, Laurent ^c,d   Jenni, Lukas ^e   Gern, Lise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

^b Natural History Museum of Geneva ^*  (Switzerland)

^c MUSÉUM D HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (Switzerland)

^d Jaman's Group of Faunal Studies   (Switzerland)

^e SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Birds; Ixodes ricinus ticks; Switzerland; Tick borne bacteria; Tick borne encephalitis virus

Indexed keywords

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANTHUS TRIVIALIS; ARTICLE; BIRD; BLACKBIRD; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BAVARIENSIS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRINGILLA COELEBS; IXODES FRONTALIS; IXODES RICINUS; MIGRANT BIRD; MIXED INFECTION; NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA HELVETICA; RICKETTSIA MONACENSIS; SWITZERLAND; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; TICK INFESTATION; TURDUS; ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTOR; BIRD DISEASES; BREEDING; CHEMISTRY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PASSERIFORMES; POPULATION MIGRATION; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; VETERINARY;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANAPLASMATACEAE; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BASE SEQUENCE; BIRD DISEASES; BORRELIA; BREEDING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PASSERIFORMES; RICKETTSIA; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWITZERLAND; TICK-BORNE DISEASES;

EID: 84907688297     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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