Publications

molecular evidence for bacterial and protozoan pathogens in hard ticks from romania.	the aim of the present study was to provide a preliminary insight into the diversity of tick-borne pathogens circulating at the domestic host-tick interface in romania. for this, feeding and questing ticks were analyzed by real-time polymerase chain reaction (pcr) for the presence of anaplasma phagocytophilum, anaplasma platys, ehrlichia canis, borrelia burgdorferi sensu latu, and by pcr and subsequent sequencing for rickettsia spp., babesia spp. and theileria spp. a total of 382 ticks, encompas ...	2013	23428204
molecular evidence for trans-stadial and transovarial transmission of babesia occultans in hyalomma marginatum and rhipicephalus turanicus in turkey.	a total of 1064 adult ticks identified as hyalomma marginatum (n=965), rhipicephalus turanicus (n=86), haemaphysalis inermis (n=9) and rhipicephalus bursa (n=4) along with 20 egg masses derived from h. marginatum (n=18) and r. bursa were screened for babesia occultans. the ticks were combined into 328 pools and infection rates were calculated as the maximum likelihood estimation (mle) with 95% confidence intervals (ci). of these pools, 23 (7%) were positive for b. occultans, and the overall mle ...	2014	25002306