A serological study of antibodies to Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in the sera of healthy individuals collected two decades apart

• Published in: Acta parasitologica Vol. 63; no. 1; pp. 33 - 39
• Main Authors: Kříž, Bohumír, Malý, Marek, Balátová, Pavla, Kodym, Petr, Kurzová, Zuzana, Daniel, Milan, Kybicová, Kateřina
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 26.03.2018; De Gruyter; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Age; Age composition; Age Distribution; Age groups; Anaplasma phagocytophilum; Anaplasma phagocytophilum - immunology; Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography; Antibodies; Antibodies, Bacterial - blood; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Borrelia burgdorferi; Borrelia burgdorferi Group - immunology; Cross-Sectional Studies; Czech Republic - epidemiology; distribution; Ecology; epidemiology; Healthy Volunteers; Immunoglobulins; Medical Microbiology; Microbiology; Parasitology; Seroepidemiologic Studies; Sex Distribution; distribution; epidemiology; antibodies; Borrelia burgdorferi; Anaplasma

Sera collected from healthy individuals from the general population in the Czech Republic during repeated cross-sectional surveys were analyzed. Samples collected in the same six districts in two time periods, 1978–1989 and 2001, were compared. The study subjects were divided into six age categories...