Detection of Lyme disease causing Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks on Jersey

Jolyon Medlock*, Scott Meadows, Kayleigh Hansford, Emma L. Gillingham, Stephen Thompson, Joseph Muscat, Clara Beckert, Ivan Muscat

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Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)464-465
Number of pages2
JournalJournal of Infection
Volume75
Issue number5
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2017

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Funding Information:
We acknowledge the laboratory support from Daniel Carter and Liz McGinley at Public Health England . Work carried out under VectorNet, a European network for sharing data on the geographic distribution of arthropod vectors, transmitting human and animal disease agents (framework contract OC/EFSA/AHAW/2013/02-FWC1 ) funded by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease prevention and Control (ECDC). JMM is also partly funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Emerging Infections and Zoonoses at the University of Liverpool in partnership with PHE and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. JMM is based at PHE. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, the Department of Health or Public Health England.

Funding Information:
We acknowledge the laboratory support from Daniel Carter and Liz McGinley at Public Health England. Work carried out under VectorNet, a European network for sharing data on the geographic distribution of arthropod vectors, transmitting human and animal disease agents (framework contract OC/EFSA/AHAW/2013/02-FWC1) funded by the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the European Centre for Disease prevention and Control (ECDC). JMM is also partly funded by the National Institute for Health Research Health Protection Research Unit (NIHR HPRU) in Emerging Infections and Zoonoses at the University of Liverpool in partnership with PHE and Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine. JMM is based at PHE. The views expressed are those of the author(s) and not necessarily those of the NHS, the NIHR, the Department of Health or Public Health England.

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