Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5546375 | Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases | 2016 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
It is known from literature that D. reticulatus individuals that moult to adult in the spring are smaller in size. Thus, the above results suggest that in urban habitats the occurrence of B. canis-infected ticks (or their questing activity) is more likely, when there are freshly emerged adults in the population, i.e. early in the questing season. It was also observed that the temporal distribution of D. reticulatus ticks carrying different B. canis genotypes was not random.
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Authors
Sándor Hornok, Kitti Kartali, Nóra Takács, Regina Hofmann-Lehmann,