A Five-year Study of the Presence of Borrelia and Antibodies to Borrelia in Small Rodents
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| Year of publication | 2003 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Current research in Zoonotic Ecology and Epidemiology |
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| Field | Immunology |
| Keywords | Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato; ELISA; IgG; rodents; PCR-RFLP; SDS-PAGGE |
| Description | Testing of wild-living rodents for the presence of antibodies against Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato using indirect ELISA method. Examination for the presence of spirochaetes in rodent tissues by dark- field microscopy. Isolation of samples and identification of them by PCR-RFLP method. Confirmation of results by SDS-PAGGE method. |
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