| seasonally biased or single-habitat sampling is not informative on the real prevalence of dermacentor reticulatus-borne rickettsiae - a pilot study. | dermacentor reticulatus is a tick species of high medical and veterinary importance, emerging in several parts of europe. up to now most studies focusing on zoonotic rickettsiae in d. reticulatus were based on ticks collected in a limited part of the questing period, and did not take into account the potential seasonal variations in the rate of infection with tick-borne rickettsiae. the aim of the present study was to investigate the latter phenomenon, i.e. to screen d. reticulatus adults, colle ... | 2017 | 28244333 |