Published in J Med Entomol on September 01, 2007
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Blood meal analysis to identify reservoir hosts for Amblyomma americanum ticks. Emerg Infect Dis (2010) 1.07
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Development of a high-throughput microsphere-based molecular assay to identify 15 common bloodmeal hosts of Culex mosquitoes. Mol Ecol Resour (2011) 0.90
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Anaplasmataceae and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the sand lizard Lacerta agilis and co-infection of these bacteria in hosted Ixodes ricinus ticks. Parasit Vectors (2011) 0.86
Identifying sources of tick blood meals using unidentified tandem mass spectral libraries. Nat Commun (2013) 0.84
Host and pathogen DNA identification in blood meals of nymphal Ixodes ricinus ticks from forest parks and rural forests of Poland. Exp Appl Acarol (2013) 0.83
Vector biodiversity did not associate with tick-borne pathogen prevalence in small mammal communities in northern and central California. Ticks Tick Borne Dis (2014) 0.81
An Invasive Mammal (the Gray Squirrel, Sciurus carolinensis) Commonly Hosts Diverse and Atypical Genotypes of the Zoonotic Pathogen Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Lato. Appl Environ Microbiol (2015) 0.81
Unique strains of Anaplasma phagocytophilum segregate among diverse questing and non-questing Ixodes tick species in the western United States. Ticks Tick Borne Dis (2013) 0.81
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Tracking the sources of blood meals of parasitic arthropods using shotgun proteomics and unidentified tandem mass spectral libraries. Nat Protoc (2014) 0.80
Morphological and molecular characterization of Karyolysus--a neglected but common parasite infecting some European lizards. Parasit Vectors (2014) 0.78
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To beat or not to beat a tick: comparison of DNA extraction methods for ticks (Ixodes scapularis). PeerJ (2015) 0.76
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An Ixodes minor and Borrelia carolinensis enzootic cycle involving a critically endangered Mojave Desert rodent. Ecol Evol (2014) 0.75
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Identification of genes that are associated with DNA repeats in prokaryotes. Mol Microbiol (2002) 14.67
GP5+/6+ PCR followed by reverse line blot analysis enables rapid and high-throughput identification of human papillomavirus genotypes. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 5.63
Identification of a novel family of sequence repeats among prokaryotes. OMICS (2002) 3.94
Bordetella pertussis, the causative agent of whooping cough, evolved from a distinct, human-associated lineage of B. bronchiseptica. PLoS Pathog (2005) 2.71
Effects of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine 2 years after its introduction, the Netherlands. Emerg Infect Dis (2010) 2.48
Generation of Campylobacter jejuni genetic diversity in vivo. Mol Microbiol (2002) 1.88
Longitudinal analysis of tick densities and Borrelia, Anaplasma, and Ehrlichia infections of Ixodes ricinus ticks in different habitat areas in The Netherlands. Appl Environ Microbiol (2006) 1.73
Multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis, a novel typing scheme to study the genetic relatedness and epidemiology of Enterococcus faecium isolates. J Clin Microbiol (2004) 1.69
Presence of potentially pathogenic Babesia sp. for human in Ixodes ricinus in Switzerland. Ann Agric Environ Med (2006) 1.66
Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in ticks collected from migratory birds in Switzerland. Appl Environ Microbiol (2006) 1.52
Tick bites in a Lyme borreliosis highly endemic area in Switzerland. Int J Med Microbiol (2008) 1.52
Invasive pneumococcal disease and 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, the Netherlands. Emerg Infect Dis (2012) 1.50
Babesia spp. identified by PCR in ticks collected from domestic and wild ruminants in southern Switzerland. Appl Environ Microbiol (2006) 1.47
Borrelia hispanica relapsing fever, Morocco. Emerg Infect Dis (2009) 1.40
Darkness induces mobility, and saturation deficit limits questing duration, in the tick Ixodes ricinus. J Exp Biol (2003) 1.34
Infections and coinfections of questing Ixodes ricinus ticks by emerging zoonotic pathogens in Western Switzerland. Appl Environ Microbiol (2012) 1.30
Multicenter evaluation of reverse line blot assay for detection of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates. J Microbiol Methods (2004) 1.29
Investigations on the mode and dynamics of transmission and infectivity of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto and Borrelia afzelii in Ixodes ricinus ticks. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2002) 1.27
Interplay of auxin, KANADI and Class III HD-ZIP transcription factors in vascular tissue formation. Development (2010) 1.27
Identification of host bloodmeal source and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in field-collected Ixodes ricinus ticks in Chaumont (Switzerland). J Med Entomol (2007) 1.24
Site-specific manifestations of invasive group a streptococcal disease: type distribution and corresponding patterns of virulence determinants. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 1.23
Identification of Anaplasma phagocytophila (formerly Ehrlichia phagocytophila) variants in blood from sheep in Norway. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 1.23
Differences in clinical manifestations and hematological and serological responses after experimental infection with genetic variants of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in sheep. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol (2003) 1.22
Identification of orthopaedic infections using broad-range polymerase chain reaction and reverse line blot hybridization. J Bone Joint Surg Am (2007) 1.20
Ecology of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Europe: transmission dynamics in multi-host systems, influence of molecular processes and effects of climate change. FEMS Microbiol Rev (2011) 1.19
Incidence of low-grade infection in aseptic loosening of total hip arthroplasty. Acta Orthop (2010) 1.15
Protection from routine vaccination at the age of 14 months with meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccine in the Netherlands. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2006) 1.14
Population structure of invasive Streptococcus pneumoniae in The Netherlands in the pre-vaccination era assessed by MLVA and capsular sequence typing. PLoS One (2011) 1.14
Borrelia crocidurae infection of Ornithodoros erraticus (Lucas, 1849) ticks in Tunisia. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2010) 1.13
PCR-reverse line blot typing method underscores the genomic heterogeneity of Borrelia valaisiana species and suggests its potential involvement in Lyme disease. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 1.12
Entomologic and serologic evidence of zoonotic transmission of Babesia microti, eastern Switzerland. Emerg Infect Dis (2002) 1.10
Optimization and application of a multiplex bead-based assay to quantify serotype-specific IgG against Streptococcus pneumoniae polysaccharides: response to the booster vaccine after immunization with the pneumococcal 7-valent conjugate vaccine. Clin Vaccine Immunol (2010) 1.09
Ixodes ricinus density, and distribution and prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infection along an altitudinal gradient. J Med Entomol (2004) 1.09
Detection and identification of Ehrlichia spp. in ticks collected in Tunisia and Morocco. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.08
Multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat analysis for Streptococcus pneumoniae: comparison with PFGE and MLST. PLoS One (2011) 1.07
First isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato from Ixodes ricinus ticks in Morocco. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2003) 1.07
Complementation of a Borrelia afzelii OspC mutant highlights the crucial role of OspC for dissemination of Borrelia afzelii in Ixodes ricinus. Int J Med Microbiol (2007) 1.06
Prospective study on the incidence of infection by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato after a tick bite in a highly endemic area of Switzerland. Ticks Tick Borne Dis (2011) 1.04
Density of questing Ixodes ricinus nymphs and adults infected by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Switzerland: spatio-temporal pattern at a regional scale. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2004) 1.02
PFGE diversity within the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clonal lineage ST398. BMC Microbiol (2010) 1.02
Influence of climate on the proportion of Ixodes ricinus nymphs and adults questing in a tick population. J Med Entomol (2004) 1.01
Invasive pneumococcal disease in the Netherlands: Syndromes, outcome and potential vaccine benefits. Vaccine (2009) 1.01
Variable spikes in tick-borne encephalitis incidence in 2006 independent of variable tick abundance but related to weather. Parasit Vectors (2008) 0.99
Borrelia burgdorferi persists in the brain in chronic lyme neuroborreliosis and may be associated with Alzheimer disease. J Alzheimers Dis (2004) 0.99
Changes in the composition of the pneumococcal population and in IPD incidence in The Netherlands after the implementation of the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine. Vaccine (2012) 0.99
Quantitative analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi gene expression in naturally (tick) infected mouse strains. Med Microbiol Immunol (2005) 0.98
Phenology of Ixodes ricinus and infection with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato along a north- and south-facing altitudinal gradient on Chaumont Mountain, Switzerland. J Med Entomol (2007) 0.96
Reservoir role of lizard Psammodromus algirus in transmission cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (Spirochaetaceae) in Tunisia. J Med Entomol (2006) 0.96
Ixodes ricinus density and infection prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato along a North-facing altitudinal gradient in the Rhône Valley (Switzerland). Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2007) 0.96
Artificial-infection protocols allow immunodetection of novel Borrelia burgdorferi antigens suitable as vaccine candidates against Lyme disease. Eur J Immunol (2003) 0.95
Vaccine preventability of meningococcal clone, Greater Aachen Region, Germany. Emerg Infect Dis (2010) 0.94
"Mycobacterium tilburgii" infections. Emerg Infect Dis (2006) 0.94
Dynamics of dissemination and outer surface protein expression of different European Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains in artificially infected Ixodes ricinus nymphs. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 0.94
Diversity of Borrelia genospecies in Ixodes ricinus ticks in a Lyme borreliosis endemic area in Switzerland identified by using new probes for reverse line blotting. Ticks Tick Borne Dis (2009) 0.94
Distribution and prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Ixodes ricinus ticks of canton Ticino (Switzerland). Eur J Epidemiol (2003) 0.93
Development of a bead-based multiplex immunoassay for simultaneous quantitative detection of IgG serum antibodies against measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella-zoster virus. Clin Vaccine Immunol (2012) 0.93
Congenital syphilis in Switzerland: gone, forgotten, on the return. Swiss Med Wkly (2012) 0.93
Survival of Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) under challenging conditions of temperature and humidity is influenced by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infection. J Med Entomol (2010) 0.92
Pathogens of emerging tick-borne diseases, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Rickettsia spp., and Babesia spp., in ixodes ticks collected from rodents at four sites in Switzerland (Canton of Bern). Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2011) 0.92
Determination of the relationship between group A streptococcal genome content, M type, and toxic shock syndrome by a mixed genome microarray. Infect Immun (2007) 0.90
High genetic diversity of Staphylococcus aureus strains colonizing patients with epidermolysis bullosa. Exp Dermatol (2012) 0.89
Characterization of Borrelia lusitaniae isolates collected in Tunisia and Morocco. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 0.89
Survival of Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) nymphs under cold conditions is negatively influenced by frequent temperature variations. Ticks Tick Borne Dis (2013) 0.89
Borrelia afzelii ospC genotype diversity in Ixodes ricinus questing ticks and ticks from rodents in two Lyme borreliosis endemic areas: contribution of co-feeding ticks. Ticks Tick Borne Dis (2011) 0.88
Dynamics in prophage content of invasive and noninvasive M1 and M28 Streptococcus pyogenes isolates in The Netherlands from 1959 to 1996. Infect Immun (2007) 0.88
Species co-occurrence patterns among Lyme borreliosis pathogens in the tick vector Ixodes ricinus. Appl Environ Microbiol (2013) 0.87
Early detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infection in Balb/c mice by co-feeding Ixodes ricinus ticks. Int J Med Microbiol (2003) 0.86
Prevalence of three zoonotic Babesia species in Ixodes ricinus (Linné, 1758) nymphs in a suburban forest in Switzerland. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2011) 0.86
Multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 0.86
Seasonality of Ixodes ricinus ticks on vegetation and on rodents and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies diversity in two Lyme borreliosis-endemic areas in Switzerland. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2012) 0.83
Blackbirds Turdus merula as competent reservoirs for Borrelia turdi and Borrelia valaisiana in Portugal: evidence from a xenodiagnostic experiment. Environ Microbiol Rep (2013) 0.81
Diversity within Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies in Switzerland by recA gene sequence. FEMS Microbiol Lett (2004) 0.80
Genotyping by amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis reveals persistence and recurrence of infection with Streptococcus anginosus group organisms. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 0.80
Evaluation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis, N. gonorrhoeae Multiantigen sequence typing, and full-length porB gene sequence analysis for molecular epidemiological typing. J Clin Microbiol (2011) 0.80
Diversity of the population of Tick-borne encephalitis virus infecting Ixodes ricinus ticks in an endemic area of central Switzerland (Canton Bern). J Gen Virol (2006) 0.80
Broad range 16S rRNA gene PCR compared to bacterial culture to confirm presumed synovial infection in horses. Vet J (2005) 0.80
A comparison of two DNA extraction approaches in the detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato from live Ixodes ricinus ticks by PCR and reverse line blotting. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2007) 0.79
Prevalence and phylogenetic analysis of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) in field-collected ticks (Ixodes ricinus) in southern Switzerland. Parasit Vectors (2014) 0.79
From Lyme disease emergence to endemicity: a cross sectional comparative study of risk perceptions in different populations. BMC Public Health (2014) 0.79
Changing characteristics of livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from humans - emergence of a subclade transmitted without livestock exposure, the Netherlands, 2003 to 2014. Euro Surveill (2016) 0.78
Evaluation of a modified culture medium for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz (2007) 0.78
Serological evidence of tick-borne encephalitis virus infection in rodents captured at four sites in Switzerland. J Med Entomol (2012) 0.77
The epidemiology of Haemophilus influenzae type b meningitis in Burkina Faso. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2006) 0.77
Next-generation sequencing of carbapenem-resistant Gram-negative microorganisms: a key tool for surveillance and infection control. Future Microbiol (2015) 0.76
Detection and identification of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies in ticks from three different regions in Slovakia. Wien Klin Wochenschr (2007) 0.75
Livestock-associated MRSA: innocent or serious health threat? Future Microbiol (2015) 0.75