High-throughput screening of tick-borne pathogens in Europe

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Volumn 4, Issue JUL, 2014, Pages

  Michelet, Lorraine ^a   Delannoy, Sabine ^b   Devillers, Elodie ^a   Umhang, Gérald ^c   Aspan, Anna ^d   Juremalm, Mikael ^d   Chirico, Jan ^d   van der Wal, Fimme J ^e   Sprong, Hein ^f   Boye Pihl, Thomas P ^g   Klitgaard, Kirstine ^g   Bødker, Rene ^g   Fach, Patrick ^b   Moutailler, Sara ^a  

^a ANSES   (France)

^b French Agency for Food   (France)

^c FRENCH AGENCY FOR FOOD   (France)

^d NATIONAL VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^e WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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

^g TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Europe; Microfluidic analyses; Molecular epidemiology; Surveillance; Tick borne diseases

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COXIELLA BURNETII; DNA EXTRACTION; FRANCISELLA TULARENSIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIGH THROUGHPUT SCREENING; IXODES RICINUS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THEILERIA ANNULATA; TICK BORNE DISEASE; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; DENMARK; EUROPE; FRANCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; HUMAN; MICROBIOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; TICK; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DENMARK; EUROPE; FRANCE; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; HIGH-THROUGHPUT SCREENING ASSAYS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NETHERLANDS; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH SURVEILLANCE; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TICK-BORNE DISEASES; TICKS;

EID: 84925884101     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22352988     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fcimb.2014.00103     Document Type: Article

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