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Angelina Wójcik-Fatla1, Ewa Cisak, Violetta Zając, Jacek Zwoliński, Jacek Dutkiewicz.
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A total of 875 nymphal and adult Ixodes ricinus ticks and 148 adult Dermacentor reticulatus ticks were collected by flagging lower vegetation in the Lublin region (eastern Poland) and examined for the presence of RNA of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) by nested RT-PCR. The minimum infection rate of I. ricinus ticks with TBEV amounted to 1.6% while the infection rate of D. reticulatus ticks was 10.8%. The results suggest that D. reticulatus may be a potential vector of TBEV in Central Europe. 2011. Published by Elsevier GmbH.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID: 21771532 DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2010.10.001
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Ticks Tick Borne Dis ISSN: 1877-959X Impact factor: 3.744