Widespread distribution and high prevalence of an alpha‐proteobacterial symbiont in the tick Ixodes ricinus

Lo, Nathan; Beninati, Tiziana; Sassera, Davide; Amse Bouman, Etan; Santagati, S.; Gern, Lise; Sambri, Vittorio; Masuzawa, Toshiyuki; Gray, Jeremy; G. T. Jaenson, Thomas; Bouattour, Ali; J. Kenny, Martin; S. Güner, Ece; G Kharitonenkov, I; Bitam, Idir; Bandi, Claudio

doi:10.1111/j.1462-2920.2006.01024.x

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Widespread distribution and high prevalence of an alpha‐proteobacterial symbiont in the tick Ixodes ricinus

Published in Environmental Microbiology • Apr 10, 2006

Authors:

Nathan Lo

Tiziana Beninati

Davide Sassera

Abstract

The tick Ixodes ricinus is responsible for the transmission of a number of bacterial, protozoan and viral diseases to humans and animals in Europe and Northern Africa. Female I. ricinus from England, Switzerland and Italy have been found to harbour an intracellular alpha-proteobacterium, designated ...

Subject

Ixodes ricinus

Biology

Ricinus

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