| borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and anaplasma phagocytophilum in ixodes ricinus ticks in brønnøysund in northern norway. | ticks are important vectors of disease for both humans and animals. in europe, lyme borreliosis is the most abundant tick-borne human disease, whereas anaplasmosis, or tick-borne fever, is the most widespread tick-borne infection in domestic animals. however, knowledge about the prevalence of the causative disease agents in questing ticks in the northern range of their distribution in norway is missing. ixodes ricinus ticks were therefore collected by flagging vegetation in brønnøysund, an area ... | 2012 | 23333106 |
| prevalence and diversity of lyme borreliosis bacteria in marine birds. | a potential role of seabirds in spreading lyme disease (lb) spirochetes over large spatial scales was suggested more than 10 years ago when borrelia garinii was observed in marine birds of both hemispheres. since then, there have been few studies examining the diversity of borrelia spp. circulating in seabirds, or the potential interaction between terrestrial and marine disease cycles. to explore these aspects, we tested 402 ixodes uriae ticks collected from five colonial seabird species by ampl ... | 2008 | 18394972 |
| [lyme neuroborreliosis in more and romsdal]. | the broad variations in the clinical manifestation in lyme borreliosis underline the importance of laboratory investigations in serum and cerebrospinal fluid. | 2001 | 11875896 |
| borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and ehrlichia spp. in ixodes ticks from southern norway. | we report the results of a study of the prevalence of ehrlichia and borrelia species in 341 questing ixodes ricinus ticks from two locations in southern norway. the prevalences of borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and ehrlichia spp. were, respectively, 16 and 11.5% at site 1 and 17 and 6% at site 2. prevalence and species composition of borrelia and ehrlichia varied with location and date of collection. the dominant borrelia species at both sites was borrelia afzelii, followed by borrelia burgdorf ... | 2001 | 11574588 |
| the propensity of voles and mice to transmit borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infection to feeding ticks. | lyme borreliosis (lb) caused by the spirochete borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato is the most common tick-borne zoonosis in the northern hemisphere. b. burgdorferi s.l. can infect humans and wild and domestic animals. ixodes ricinus is the main vector, and small rodents are the most important mammalian reservoirs hosts of b. burgdorferi s.l. in europe. the prevalence of b. burgdorferi s.l. in i. ricinus ticks from captured rodents, calculated specific infectivities, and transmission coefficients we ... | 2013 | 23849517 |
| seroprevalence of antibodies to borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in healthy adults from western norway: risk factors and methodological aspects. | the aim of this study was to assess the seroprevalence of antibodies to borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in a healthy adult population from sogn and fjordane county in western norway by different assays. sera from 1213 blood donors at four different blood banks were analysed in enzygnost lyme link vlse/igg (igg), enzygnost borreliosis igm (igm), and immunetics c6 lyme elisa kit (c6). sera showing positive or grey-zone reactivities were further examined with borrelia-euroline-rn-at igg blot and bo ... | 2014 | 24730472 |