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SUBMITTER: Marcutan ID
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4875720 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Mărcuţan Ioan-Daniel ID Kalmár Zsuzsa Z Ionică Angela Monica AM D'Amico Gianluca G Mihalca Andrei Daniel AD Vasile Cozma C Sándor Attila D AD
Parasites & vectors 20160520 1
<h4>Background</h4>Birds are important hosts and dispersers of parasitic arthropods and vector-borne zoonotic pathogens. Particularly migratory species may carry these parasites over long distances in short time periods. Migratory hotspots present ideal conditions to get a snapshot of parasite and pathogen diversity of birds migrating between continents. The aim of this study was to investigate the presence and diversity of Rickettsia spp. in ticks collected from birds at a migratory hot-spot in ...[more]