Lyme borreliosis, an infection caused by the tick-borne spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, is a
major health problem for populations in areas of endemicity in the Northern Hemisphere. In …

Free-living Ixodes ricinus ticks were collected from 12 different sites of canton Ticino, south
of the Alps (Switzerland). Each tick was examined for the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi …

A total of 691 Ixodes ricinus (22 male, 39 female, 501 nymphs and 129 larvae), the tick
vector of Lyme borreliosis, were collected by flagging from vegetation in 11 areas at altitudes …

In 1986, 1711 nymphal and adult Ixodes ricinus originating from Berlin (West) forests were
examined individually or in pools of up to 10 ticks for the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi …

The prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato (sl) in 761 Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in
different localities of southern Bohemia was investigated. The minimum infection rate of …

A total of 825 adult ticks (727 Ixodes ricinus, 72 Dermacentor marginatus and 26
Haemaphysalis punctata) was collected from vegetation in Valais (Switzerland) in 1987 to …

Ticks and blood samples were collected from white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) in
forests located in an insular, urban area of Bridgeport, Conn., and in rural south central …

More than a decade after a study on the transmission cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato
in the Siebengebirge, a nature reserve near Bonn, Germany, questing nymphal and adult …

In May 1996, 164 pooled and single samples containing 913 larvae, nymphs and adults of
Ixodes ricinus from urban, suburban and wooded biotopes of southern Poland were …

Ixodes ricinus ticks, collected in 1996–1998 in different Polish woodlands, were examined to
assess the frequency of the occurrence of Lyme borreliosis-associated genospecies. A total …