Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in the wood tick Ixodes ricinus in the Province of Trento, Italy
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Borrelia Burgdorferi Lyme Borreliosis Acute Febrile Illness Anaplasma Phagocytophilum Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis
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Acknowledgments
This project was co-financed by the Research Fund of the Autonomous Province of Trento (grant no. 1060 ECODIS) and the Centro di Ecologia Alpina. We would like to thank F. Davoli for help with sequence analysis and S. Zorzi for collecting ticks. RR was supported by the Autonomous Province of Trento under grant no. 3479 “MOSTWIN-Modelling the spatio-temporal dynamics of zoonotic wildlife infections”. The experiments conducted comply with the current laws of Italy.
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