| seasonal variations in detecting borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in rodents from north eastern austria. | austria is well known as an endemic area of lyme borreliosis. to assess the annual variation of rodent populations that may host agents of lyme borreliosis we collected rodents in northeastern austria. life traps were set out every six weeks during a year consecutively in one each of the three different zones (hohenau, ernstbrunn, vienna woods) that cover the main habitat characteristics of small mammals in northeastern austria. rodents were collected and identified. samples of heart, urine blad ... | 2006 | 17186171 |
| detection and molecular analysis of west nile virus infections in birds of prey in the eastern part of austria in 2008 and 2009. | the emergence of west nile virus (wnv) was expected in austria since the initial discovery of the infection in neighbouring hungary in 2003/2004. in 2008 six cases of west nile disease were diagnosed at the institute for veterinary disease control mödling, austrian agency for health and food safety (ages), involving five goshawks (accipiter gentilis) and one gyrfalcon (falco rusticolus), which were found dead in the eastern austrian federal states of lower austria, vienna and styria, respectivel ... | 2010 | 21276665 |