| prevalence of rickettsiales (anaplasma phagocytophilum and rickettsia spp.) in hard ticks (ixodes ricinus) in the city of hamburg, germany. | to narrow the gap of missing knowledge on rickettsia spp. and anaplasma phagocytophilum infections in ticks in northwestern germany and, at the same time, to provide first prevalence data on these pathogens in the city of hamburg, a total of 1,400 questing ixodes ricinus ticks were collected at ten different public green areas from april until october 2011. ticks were examined using probe-based quantitative real-time pcr. a percentage of 3.6% (51/1,400) ticks were tested positive for a. phagocyt ... | 2014 | 24728556 |