Crowdsourcing-based nationwide tick collection reveals the distribution of Ixodes ricinus and I. persulcatus and associated pathogens in Finland

Emerging Microbes and Infections

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2017, Pages

  Laaksonen, Maija ^a   Sajanti, Eeva ^a   Sormunen, Jani J ^a   Penttinen, Ritva ^a   Hänninen, Jari ^a   Ruohomäki, Kai ^a   Sääksjärvi, Ilari ^a   Vesterinen, Eero J ^b   Vuorinen, Ilppo ^a   Hytönen, Jukka ^a   Klemola, Tero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BORRELIA; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA MIYAMOTOI; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROWDSOURCING; DNA EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FINLAND; IXODES PERSULCATUS; IXODES RICINUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMS BY GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA EXTRACTION; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS VIRUS; ANIMAL; BORRELIELLA; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; IXODES; MICROBIOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; PROCEDURES; SEASON; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TICK BORNE ENCEPHALITIS; TICK INFESTATION; VIROLOGY;

BACTERIAL DNA;

ANIMALS; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI; BORRELIA BURGDORFERI GROUP; CROWDSOURCING; DNA, BACTERIAL; ENCEPHALITIS VIRUSES, TICK-BORNE; ENCEPHALITIS, TICK-BORNE; FINLAND; HUMANS; IXODES; SEASONS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TICK INFESTATIONS;

EID: 85025091281     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22221751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/emi.2017.17     Document Type: Article

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