title: [Investigation of rodents and Ixodes for Lyme disease and four strains of Borrelia burgdorferi first isolated from Ixodes granulatus Supino, Rattus confucianus and R. norvegicus in Fujian province].
abstract: With BSK II medium, 4 strains of Borrelia burgdorferi was isolated from Ixodes granulatus Supino, Rattus confucianus and R, novregicus, which Ixodes and Ruttus all captured from forest areas in northern of Fujian province where have found Lyme cases. These isolated strains were identified by Institute of Epidemiology and Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine.
authors.affiliation: Fujian Provincial Center of Sanitary and Epidemic Prevention, Fuzhou.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Pan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001096:Arachnid Vectors; D015748:Borrelia burgdorferi Group / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000635:transmission*; D009115:Muridae / Q000382:microbiology*; D051381:Rats; D013987:Ticks / Q000382:microbiology*