DNA of piroplasms of ruminants and dogs in ixodid bat ticks

S Hornok, K Szőke, D Kováts, P Estok, T Görföl… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
In this study 308 ticks (Ixodes ariadnae: 26 larvae, 14 nymphs, five females; I. vespertilionis:
89 larvae, 27 nymphs, eight females; I. simplex: 80 larvae, 50 nymphs, nine females) have …

New Rickettsia species in soft ticks Ornithodoros hasei collected from bats in French Guiana

D Tahir, C Socolovschi, JL Marié, G Ganay… - Ticks and Tick-borne …, 2016 - Elsevier
Guiana, located on the northeastern coast of South America, bats of different species are
very numerous. The infection of bats and their ticks with zoonotic bacteria, especially …