Highly Variable Year-to-Year Prevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Ixodes ricinus Ticks in Northeastern Poland: A 4-Year Follow-up
- 1 October 2006
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
- Vol. 1078 (1) , 309-311
Abstract
Anaplasma phagocytophilum is transmitted mainly by Ixodes ricinus ticks in Europe. We followed-up A. phagocytophilum infection rate in I. ricinus in three selected collection sites in northeastern Poland during a four-year period. Overall infection rate was 14.1% (208/1474) with highest infection rate among females (36.8% verses males 8.2% and nymphs 0.9%). We noted a very big year-to-year variation of infection prevalence in each collection cite every year reflecting changeable granulocytic anaplasmosis risk for humans and animals.Keywords
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