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[The reservoir hosts and vectors of Borrelia--the causative organisms of ixodid tick-borne borrelioses in Russia].
Zhurnal mikrobiologii, epidemiologii i immunobiologii - 1 Jan 2000
Korenberg E I, Gorelova N B, Postic D, Kovalevskiĭ Iu V, Baranton G, Vorob'eva N N
Abstract excerpt
327 Borrelia isolates from ixodid ticks of 3 species from 12 major administrative territories of Russia (from Leningrad Province in the west to Sakhalin Province in the east), as well as from forest myomorph rodents of 6 species and from skin biopsies of borreliosis patents, were identified by the PRC and RFLP methods. B. afzelii, B. garinii and B. garinii NT29 were shown to be widespread in Russia. No other...
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