Pathogens of Emerging Tick-Borne Diseases, <i>Anaplasma phagocytophilum</i> , <i>Rickettsia</i> spp., and <i>Babesia</i> spp., in <i>Ixodes</i> Ticks Collected from Rodents at Four Sites in Switzerland (Canton of Bern)

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This study is part of a project that aimed to better understand the role of small mammals in the maintenance of the tick-borne encephalitis virus at four different sites in Switzerland. Here we focused on the detection of three intracellular pathogens, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Rickettsia spp., and Babesia spp., in field-derived ticks that detached from 79 small mammals. We analyzed 465 Ixodes ricinus larvae...

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