| prevalence of different rickettsia spp. in ixodes ricinus and dermacentor reticulatus ticks (acari: ixodidae) in north-eastern poland. | in two surveys conducted in april and may 2013, a total of 1148 unfed ticks belonging to two species, ixodes ricinus and dermacentor reticulatus, were collected by flagging lower vegetation in 15 different localities throughout the białowieża primeval forest (podlaskie voivodship; north-eastern poland) and in its buffer zone. in order to establish their infection rate with rickettsia spp. individual adult ticks and pooled nymphs were tested by real-time pcr targeting the glta gene. for the furth ... | 2017 | 29290582 |