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Ixodes ricinus in Ireland: exploring the links between environmental factors, host species activity and tick abundance in an area of Europe with limited potential vertebrate hosts
2024-09-16
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Background:</bold> <italic>Ixodes ricinus</italic> (Linnaeus 1758) vectors several important diseases in Europe, and the nymphal abundance in an area is an important factor determining tick bite risk. While interactions between abiotic, habitat, and vertebrate host factors and this tick species are generally well understood in continental Europe, this is not the case in Ireland, a...
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- Literature Corpus work
- aede1bcb-458c-51ca-8beb-68c6f6db3f9a
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-4848879/v1
