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High Prevalence and Low Diversity of Rickettsia in Dermacentor reticulatus Ticks, Central Europe

We collected 1,671 Dermacentor reticulatus ticks from 17 locations in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary. We found 47.9% overall prevalence of Rickettsia species in ticks over all locations. Sequence analysis confirmed that all tested samples belonged to R. raoultii, the causative agent of ti...

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Autores principales: Balážová, Alena, Földvári, Gábor, Bilbija, Branka, Nosková, Eva, Široký, Pavel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8962898/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35318933
http://dx.doi.org/10.3201/eid2804.211267