Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus in a highly urbanized and low risk area in Southern Poland

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 663-667

  Drelich, Aleksandra ^a   Andreassen, Åshild ^b   Vainio, Kirsti ^b   Kruszyński, Piotr ^a   Wasik, Tomasz J ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SILESIA   (Poland)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Ixodes ricinus; Poland; Prevalence; Tick borne encephalitis virus; Urban areas

Indexed keywords

RNA 16S;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INDUSTRIAL AREA; IXODES RICINUS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLAND; PREVALENCE; PYROSEQUENCING; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS FLAVIVIRUS; URBAN AREA; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS IDENTIFICATION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; PARASITE VECTOR; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; VIROLOGY;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; MALE; POLAND; PREVALENCE;

EID: 84907691675     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.04.020     Document Type: Article

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