| ecological studies on the brown dog tick rhipicephalus sanguineus (acari: ixodidae) in southern israel and its relationship to spotted fever group rickettsiae. | an outbreak of spotted fever group rickettsiae (sfgr) was investigated by studying free-living and parasitic stages of ticks in two settlements of equal size and population located 20 km apart in the negev desert. although high morbidity from sfgr was found in one of the settlements (kibbutz ze'elim), no clinical cases were observed in the second (kibbutz re'im). using flagging and co2-trapping, approximately 9 times more ticks were collected in ze'elim than in re'im. rhipicephalus sanguineus (l ... | 1993 | 8433318 |
| detection of bartonella spp. in wild carnivores, hyraxes, hedgehog and rodents from israel. | bartonella infection was explored in wild animals from israel. golden jackals (canis aureus), red foxes (vulpes vulpes), rock hyraxes (procavia capensis), southern white-breasted hedgehogs (erinaceus concolor), social voles (microtus socialis), tristram's jirds (meriones tristrami), cairo spiny mice (acomys cahirinus), house mice (mus musculus) and indian crested porcupines (hystrix indica) were sampled and screened by molecular and isolation methods. bartonella-dna was detected in 46 animals: 9 ... | 2016 | 27210612 |