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Ticks and their caused diseases lyme disease and TBE are an increasingly discussed topic in Switzerland. The habitat preferences of ticks have been studied frequently, but there exist almost no data about the abundance of ticks in urban areas. Due to that, the purpose of this study was to examine th...
Tick-borne relapsing fever (RF) is considered to be caused by the spirochaete Borrelia persica, transmitted to humans by Ornithodorus tholozani, and is a notifiable disease in Israel. Between 1980 and 2002, 184 cases were reported, i.e. an average of eight cases per year (range 0-16). Among them, ab...
The present paper describes a test procedure with human volunteers used for a comparative investigation of tick repellents. Eight commercially available repellents were tested against the tickIxodes ricinus (L.) and several test criteria described. Ticks were placed on a copper plate situated on an ...
Human vector-borne diseases, such as malaria, lymphatic filariasis, and dengue hemorrhagic fever are a global health problem. These diseases affect millions of people in developed and undeveloped countries. Entomologists, biologists, and vector ecologists from North America and Europe share informat...
A total of 12,911 ticks were collected by flagging from 10 localities of the city Prague between 19941997. The detection of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. was performed using the indirect immuno-fluorescence method (with polyclonal hyperimmune serum) and 635 ticks collected in a urban park were selected ...
In woodlands of Western Europe, rodents like yellow-necked mice (Apodemus flavicollis Melchior) or bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus Schreber) play an important role in the natural circulation of B. burgdorferi sensu lato. It was possible to catch a total number of 120 small mammals (only first ca...
In the Czech Republic, Ixodes ricinus is the main vector of two important tick-borne diseases: tickborne encephalitis (TBE) and Lyme borreliosis (LB). Both these infections are frequently distributed in recreational areas among people coming there from Prague and from other large towns at weekend or...