| [borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in ixodid ticks from ostrava slag heaps]. | in 2005 and 2006, ixodes ricinus ticks were collected on two slag (waste rock) heaps from coal mines in the ostrava area (north moravia/silesia, czech republic), oskar (site a) and emma (site b), partially covered by vegetation including trees, and at a control forest site near hlucín (site c). the mean numbers of l. ricinus nymphs and imagoes flagged per person-hour were high: 35.3 nymphs and 12.7 imagoes, at site a, 23.3 and 26.0, respectively, at site b, and 25.4 and 16.8, respectively, at co ... | 2009 | 19526923 |