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Birds as potential reservoirs of tick-borne pathogens: first evidence of bacteraemia with Rickettsia helvetica

BACKGROUND: Birds have long been known as carriers of ticks, but data from the literature are lacking on their role as a reservoir in the epidemiology of certain tick-borne disease-causing agents. Therefore, the aim of this study was to evaluate the presence of three emerging, zoonotic tick-borne pa...

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Autores principales: Hornok, Sándor, Kováts, Dávid, Csörgő, Tibor, Meli, Marina L, Gönczi, Enikő, Hadnagy, Zsófia, Takács, Nóra, Farkas, Róbert, Hofmann-Lehmann, Regina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3976504/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24679245
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-3305-7-128