Dissemination of Spotted Fever Rickettsia Agents in Europe by Migrating Birds

Migratory birds are known to play a role as long-distance vectors for many microorganisms. To investigate whether this is true of rickettsial agents as well, we characterized tick infestation and gathered ticks from 13,260 migratory passerine birds in Sweden. A total of 1127 Ixodes spp. ticks were r...

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Autores principales: Elfving, Karin, Olsen, Björn, Bergström, Sven, Waldenström, Jonas, Lundkvist, Åke, Sjöstedt, Anders, Mejlon, Hans, Nilsson, Kenneth
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2010
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2797135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20052286
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008572

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2797135/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20052286
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0008572

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