Ixodes ricinus ticks (Acari, Ixodidae) as a vector of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and Borrelia miyamotoi in Lower Silesia, Poland - Preliminary study

Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 892-897

  Kiewra, Dorota ^a   Stańczak, Joanna ^b   Richter, Magdalena ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GDANSK   (Poland)

Author keywords

B. burgdorferi; B. miyamotoi; Borrelia; Ixodes ricinus; Lower Silesia; Poland

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; INFECTION RATE; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; ANIMAL; ARACHNID VECTOR; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NYMPH;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; ARACHNID VECTORS; BASE SEQUENCE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; COINFECTION; DNA, BACTERIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MALE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NYMPH; POLAND; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84907698072     PISSN: 1877959X     EISSN: 18779603     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.07.004     Document Type: Article

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