Use of mass-participation outdoor events to assess human exposure to tickborne pathogens

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 463-467

  Hall, Jessica L ^a   Alpers, Kathrin ^a   Bown, Kevin J ^a   Martin, Stephen J ^a   Birtles, Richard J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BORRELIA; BORRELIA AFZELII; BORRELIA GARINII; BORRELIA INFECTION; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FOREST; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LYME DISEASE; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TICK; TICK BORNE DISEASE; ANIMAL; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; RUNNING; SCOTLAND; SPORT; TICK BITE;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA; HUMANS; IXODES; RUNNING; SCOTLAND; SPORTS; TICK BITES;

EID: 85013287191     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid2303.161397     Document Type: Article

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