| [prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus and rickettsiae in ticks of the district burgenland, austria]. | large areas of the central european country austria are known to be endemic for tick-borne encephalitis virus (tbev). however, so far only limited data are available for the prevalence, distribution and species composition of rickettsiae of the spotted fever group in austria. in the present study 306 ticks were collected in summer 2007. location of sampling was neudörfl, a known tbev endemic area in the district of burgenland in eastern austria. 286 ticks belonged to the species ixodes ricinus a ... | 2008 | 19066772 |