High prevalence of Borrelia lusitaniae in Ixodes ricinus ticks in Tunisia
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in European Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 17 (1) , 53-56
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1010928731281
Abstract
To investigate whether ticks of the genus Ixodes are infected by Borrelia burgdorferi complex, 490 unfed Ixodes ricinusticks were collected by flagging in three different areas of Tunisia in 1998....Keywords
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