Pathogens vectored by the tick, Dermacentor reticulatus, in endemic regions and zones of expansion in Poland.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Dermacentor reticulatus plays an important role in the maintenance of pathogens of medical and veterinary importance in the environment. Currently two isolated populations of D. reticulatus are present in Poland--Western and Eastern. The range of the Eastern population covers endemic areas in eastern Poland but this population is expanding westwards creating an expansion zone in the centre of the country. The expansion zone in western Poland is occupied by the recently discovered Western population, spreading eastwards.

Methods

Questing adult ticks (n = 2585) were collected in 2012-2014 in endemic regions of north-eastern (Warmińsko-Mazurskie Voivodeship) and central Poland (Masovian Voivodeship) and in the expansion zones in central and western Poland, in the reg

SUBMITTER: Mierzejewska EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4581476 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature