| occurrence of multiple infections with different borrelia burgdorferi genospecies in danish ixodes ricinus nymphs. | the pathogen borrelia burgdorferi causes lyme borreliosis in human and animals world-wide. in europe the pathogen is transmitted to the host by the vector ixodes ricinus. the nymph is the primary instar for transmission to humans. we here study the infection rate of five borrelia genospecies: b. burgdorferi sensu stricto, b. afzelii, b. garinii, b. valaisiana, b. lusitaniae in nymphs, by ifa and pcr. 600 nymphs were collected in north zealand of denmark. each nymph was first analysed by ifa. if ... | 2008 | 17804280 |
| anaplasma phagocytophilum in danish sheep: confirmation by dna sequencing. | the presence of anaplasma phagocytophilum, an ixodes ricinus transmitted bacterium, was investigated in two flocks of danish grazing lambs. direct pcr detection was performed on dna extracted from blood and serum with subsequent confirmation by dna sequencing. | 2009 | 20025738 |
| identification of bartonella species in rodents, shrews and cats in denmark: detection of two b. henselae variants, one in cats and the other in the long-tailed field mouse. | small mammals and stray cats were trapped in two areas of north zealand, denmark, and their blood cultured for hemotrophic bacteria. bacterial isolates were recovered in pure culture and subjected to 16s rdna gene sequencing. bartonella species were isolated from five mammalian species: b. grahamii from microtus agrestis (field vole) and apodemus flavicollis (yellow-necked field mouse); b. taylorii from m. agrestis, a. flavicollis and a. sylvaticus (long-tailed field mouse); b. tribocorum from a ... | 2004 | 15511270 |
| first identification of tick-borne encephalitis in denmark outside of bornholm, august 2009. | the incidence of tick-borne encephalitis (tbe) in scandinavia is increasing and spreading geographically. following two clinical cases of tbe hospitalised after tick bites in northern zealand, denmark, specific igm and igg antibodies against tick-borne encephalitis virus (tbev) were demonstrated in acute serum samples of these patients. tbev was identified by rt-pcr in ticks collected from the same location. this is the first report of tbev in ixodes ricinus leading to clinical cases in denmark ... | 2009 | 19758543 |