Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5546354 | Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases | 2017 | 18 Pages |
Abstract
The mean prevalences of the infection with the investigated pathogens in I. ricinus ticks collected from human patients were as follows: A. phagocytophilum (5.56%), R. helvetica (4.79%) and R. monacensis (1.53%). In the present study, no significant differences of pathogens prevalence between the three years study period were observed, except the prevalence of R. helvetica, which had a significant increase in 2015, suggesting an increasing risk for humans to be exposed to this zoonotic pathogen.
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Authors
Ioana Adriana Matei, Zsuzsa Kalmár, Mihaela LupÅe, Gianluca D'Amico, Angela Monica IonicÄ, Mirabela Oana Dumitrache, CÄlin Mircea Gherman, Andrei Daniel Mihalca,