Role of Birds in Dispersal of Etiologic Agents of Tick-borne Zoonoses, Spain, 2009

We amplified gene sequences from Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Borrelia garinii, B. valaisiana, B. turdi, Rickettsia monacensis, R. helvetica, R. sibirica sibirica, and Rickettsia spp. (including Candidatus Rickettsia vini) in ticks removed from birds in Spain. The findings support the role of passerine birds as possible dispersers of these tick-borne pathogens.

• Publication year

  2012

• Venue

  Emerging Infectious Diseases

• Publication date

  2012-07-01

• Fields of study

  Biology, Medicine, Environmental Science

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.3201/eid1807.111777PMID 22709801PMCID 3376802
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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