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Feeding of Ticks on Animals for Transmission and Xenodiagnosis in Lyme Disease Research
Published on: August 31, 2013
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Fatal tick-borne encephalitis in an immunosuppressed 12-year-old patient
Václav Chmelík1, Aleš Chrdle1, Daniel Růžek2
1Department of Infectious Diseases, Hospital České Budějovice, B. Němcové 54, CZ-37001 České Budějovice, Czech Republic.
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