Borrelia miyamotoi in host-seeking Ixodes ricinus ticks in England

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 143, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 1079-1087

  Hansford, K M ^a   Fonville, M ^b   Jahfari, S ^b   Sprong, H ^b   Medlock, J M ^a  

^a Emergency Response Department MRAandBS Medical Entomology and Zoonoses Ecology Group   (United Kingdom)

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

Author keywords

Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Borrelia burgdorferi s.l.; Borrelia miyamotoi; Ixodes ricinus; public health

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI SENSU LATO; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; ENDEMIC SPECIES; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; INFECTION RATE; IXODES RICINUS; NEOEHRLICHIA MIKURENSIS; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RICKETTSIALES; TICK BORNE DISEASE; UNITED KINGDOM; ANIMAL; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

ANAPLASMA PHAGOCYTOPHILUM; ANIMALS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; DISEASE VECTORS; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENGLAND; IXODES; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

EID: 84924614194     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268814001691     Document Type: Article

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