Affiliation:
1. Department of Veterinary Internal Medicine, University of Zurich, CH-8057 Zurich,1 and the
2. Swiss National Center for Retroviruses, University of Zurich, CH-8044 Zurich,2 Switzerland
Abstract
ABSTRACT
A total of 1,523 adult
Ixodes ricinus
ticks were collected from regions where bovine ehrlichiosis is endemic and were examined for
Ehrlichia phagocytophila
via PCR. Of the ticks from cattle with ehrlichiosis, the ticks from healthy cattle, and the free-living ticks, 26.5% (18 of 68), 4.4% (35 of 802), and 0.8% (5 of 653), respectively, were positive.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Cited by
22 articles.
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