Larvae of Ixodes ricinus transmit Borrelia afzelii and B. miyamotoi to vertebrate hosts

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2016, Pages

  Van Duijvendijk, Gilian ^a   Coipan, Claudia ^b   Wagemakers, Alex ^c   Fonville, Manoj ^b   Ersöz, Jasmin ^c   Oei, Anneke ^c   Földvári, Gábor ^d   Hovius, Joppe ^c   Takken, Willem ^a   Sprong, Hein ^b  

^a WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d SZENT ISTVÁN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Borrelia burgdorferi; Borrelia miyamotoi; Infection; Ixodes ricinus; Larva; Rodent; Tick; Transmission; Vector

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL TRANSMISSION; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA IYAMOTOI; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CARRIER; HOST; IXODES RICINUS; LARVA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TISSUE CULTURE; VERTEBRATE; ANIMAL; BORRELIA; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIOLOGY; SKIN; SPLEEN; TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; IXODES; LARVA; LYME DISEASE; MICE; SKIN; SPLEEN;

EID: 84958281002     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13071-016-1389-5     Document Type: Article

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