| pathogens of emerging tick-borne diseases, anaplasma phagocytophilum, rickettsia spp., and babesia spp., in ixodes ticks collected from rodents at four sites in switzerland (canton of bern). | this study is part of a project that aimed to better understand the role of small mammals in the maintenance of the tick-borne encephalitis virus at four different sites in switzerland. here we focused on the detection of three intracellular pathogens, anaplasma phagocytophilum, rickettsia spp., and babesia spp., in field-derived ticks that detached from 79 small mammals. we analyzed 465 ixodes ricinus larvae after their molt and 14 semiengorged i. trianguliceps that were feeding on rodents. no ... | 2011 | 21417929 |
| diversity of the population of tick-borne encephalitis virus infecting ixodes ricinus ticks in an endemic area of central switzerland (canton bern). | tick-borne encephalitis virus (tbev), a member of the genus flavivirus, has a positive-strand rna genome containing a single open reading frame flanked by non-coding regions (ncrs). ixodes ricinus ticks (n = 307) were collected from vegetation in a natural tbev focus in belp, switzerland. the presence and identity of the virus were determined by nested rt-pcr followed by sequencing of the 5'-terminal region that comprises the 5' ncr and the capsid-encoding region (c). the presence of the western ... | 2006 | 16847119 |