Ixodes ricinus
Determination of Novel Borrelia Genospecies in Swedish Ixodes ricinus Ticks
... Ticks transmit many clinically important pathogens of the genus Borrelia. These spirochetes are responsible for two groups of human disease: Lyme borreliosis (LB) and relapsing fever (RF). LB is the most prevalent ...
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Estimating Ixodes ricinus densities on the landscape scale
... variables were considered instead of the frequently applied approach of reducing significant variables from a large set of possible explanatory variables. As a side effect, collinearities (e.g. between altitude and ...
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Transmission of Anaplasma phagocytophilum (Foggie, 1949) by Ixodes ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758) ticks feeding on dogs and artificial membranes
... MSP2 target in DNA isolated from whole blood obtained from dogs in Group 6 demonstrates that A. phagocy- tophilum was able to multiply in blood over time and that the bacteria were thus alive. This further validates the ...
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Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) analysis and biological control of Ixodes ricinus using entomopathogenic fungi
... Fig. 2. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) analysis of ticks contaminated with Metarhizium anisopliae. a–b. Growth of fungal mycelia on the cuticle of killed ticks which shows signs of fungal grow in dorsal and ventral ...
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Control of Lyme borreliosis and other Ixodes ricinus borne diseases
... of ticks they feed, which further differs between the differ- ent tick life stages. In forest areas, larvae predominantly feed on rodents, nymphs feed on the highest variety of host, but mostly forest birds and rodents, ...
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Morphological responses to feeding in ticks (Ixodes ricinus)
... Given the more than 100-fold volume increase, a major challenge for the epidermis and the cuticle of ixodid ticks is providing sufficient area of the epidermal epithelium and the cuticle at the end of feeding to contain ...
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High Diversity of ankA Sequences of Anaplasma phagocytophilum among Ixodes ricinus Ticks in Germany
... German Ixodes ricinus ticks in order to test whether they differ from strains in other European countries and the United ...I. ricinus ticks were investigated for infection with ...I. ricinus ...
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Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis in rodents in an area with sympatric existence of the hard ticks Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus, Germany
... anthrophilic Ixodes ricinus may act as bridge vectors between large mammalian spe- cies including humans and small mammals ...I. ricinus in the Netherlands and Italy as well as in a Norway rat ...
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Silaghi, Cornelia (2008): Prevalence and genetic analysis of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Spotted Fever Group rickettsiae in the tick Ixodes ricinus in urban and periurban sites in southern Germany. Dissertation, LMU München: Tierärztliche Fakultät
... Host-seeking Ixodes ricinus (L.) ticks were collected systematically, from May to September 2006, at selected sites in Southern Germany, including a large city park in Munich. Polymerase Chain Reactions for ...
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Whole body transcriptomes and new insights into the biology of the tick Ixodes ricinus
... Ixodes ricinus is one of the most abundant and wide- spread tick species in Europe where it transmits a num- ber of tick-borne diseases including Lyme borreliosis and tick-borne encephalitis [9, ...genus ...
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Transmission Studies of Babesia microti in Ixodes ricinus Ticks and Gerbils
... of Ixodes ricinus as a vector of zoonotic Babesia microti infection in Europe, a European rodent isolate (HK) and a zoonotic American isolate (GI) were studied in transmission ...I. ricinus could ...
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Search for blood or water is influenced by Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes ricinus
... The idea that a parasite can modify the phenotype of its host by changing the host perception of the environment and/or behaviour in order to complete its transmission cycle is intriguing. This phenomenon is well ...
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Spectrophotometric analysis of lipid used to examine the phenology of the tick Ixodes ricinus
... Some previous studies have categorised ixodid ticks simply into residual blood meal or lipid-related age-clas- ses [6, 7]. In contrast, other authors have used a gravi- metric method for lipid estimation in the tick, ...
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Spatial and seasonal variation in the prevalence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in questing Ixodes ricinus ticks in Norway
... Questing Ixodes ricinus adult and nymphal ticks were sampled in May and August 2011 by aid of the cloth lure or “flagging” method [51] in connection with a study of variation in tick abundance in relation ...
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Effects of global changes on the climatic niche of the tick Ixodes ricinus inferred by species distribution modelling
... of Ixodes ricinus (Acari, Ixodida), among the most important vectors of pathogens of medical and veterinary concern in ...I. ricinus, and to project it into the future conditions for 2050 and 2080, ...
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Temporal dynamics of the tick Ixodes ricinus in northern Europe: epidemiological implications
... Ixodes ricinus is dependent on vertebrate hosts to complete its life-cycle. Larvae typically feed on small vertebrates, such as rodents; nymphs, the more common biting stage for humans, parasitize mostly ...
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Larvae of Ixodes ricinus transmit Borrelia afzelii and B miyamotoi to vertebrate hosts
... I. ricinus can transmit Lyme disease ...I. ricinus to rodents is considered to be 100 % for nymphs [30] and 10 % for larvae (1 out of 10 larvae, Table 2), larvae are still responsible for a quarter of the ...
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Shifts in Borrelia burgdorferi (s l ) geno species infections in Ixodes ricinus over a 10 year surveillance period in the city of Hanover (Germany) and Borrelia miyamotoi specific Reverse Line Blot detection
... I. ricinus larvae in 2010 [9] indicate its occurrence due to highly efficient transovarial trans- mission in ticks contrary to inefficient transovarial transmission of ...I. ricinus larvae to vertebrates ...
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Simultaneous detection and genotyping of three genomic groups of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Dutch Ixodes ricinus ticks by characterization of the amplified intergenic spacer region between 5S and 23S rRNA genes
... I. ricinus ticks collected from Ameland were maintained in the laboratory for four generations at 18 8 C with 100% relative humidity and a photoperiod of 14 h of light and 10 h of ...
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Poljak, Sabine (2012): Epidemiologische Studie zu zeckenübertragenen Krankheitserregern in Ixodes ricinus aus bayerischen Parkanlagen. Dissertation, LMU München: Tierärztliche Fakultät
... I. ricinus (Gardiner und Gettinby, 1983; Sonenshine, ...I. ricinus auch bei milden klimatisch Verhältnissen eine Aktivität in den Wintermonaten zeigen (Dautel et ...I. ricinus kann zwischen 2 und 6 ...
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