Uptake and fecal excretion of Coxiella burnetii by Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor marginatus ticks

BACKGROUND: The bacterium Coxiella burnetii is the etiological agent of Q fever and is mainly transmitted via inhalation of infectious aerosols. DNA of C. burnetii is frequently detected in ticks, but the role of ticks as vectors in the epidemiology of this agent is still controversial. In this stud...

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Published in:Parasit Vectors
Main Authors: Körner, Sophia, Makert, Gustavo R., Mertens-Scholz, Katja, Henning, Klaus, Pfeffer, Martin, Starke, Alexander, Nijhof, Ard M., Ulbert, Sebastian
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2020
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7023696/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32059686
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-020-3956-z
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