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ArticleInfection ecology & epidemiology2011

Migratory birds, ticks, and Bartonella.

Ylva Molin, Mats Lindeborg, Fredrik Nyström, Maxime Madder, Eva Hjelm, Björn Olsen, Thomas G T Jaenson, Christian Ehrenborg

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Article in Infection ecology & epidemiology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

  1. Transboundary and emerging diseases · 2025
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  2. Survey of Tick-Borne Zoonotic Agents inTransboundary and emerging diseases · 2023
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  5. Detection of microbial agents in ticks collected from migratory birds in central Italy.Vector borne and zoonotic diseases (Larchmont, N.Y.) · 2014
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Ylva MolinClinical Bacteriology, Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
Mats Lindeborg
Fredrik Nyström
Maxime Madder
Eva Hjelm
Björn Olsen
Thomas G T Jaenson
Christian Ehrenborg

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Bartonella spp. infections are considered to be vector-borne zoonoses; ticks are suspected vectors of bartonellae. Migratory birds can disperse ticks infected with zoonotic pathogens such as Rickettsia and tick-borne encephalitis virus and possibly also Bartonella. Thus, in the present study 386 tick specimens collected in spring 2009 from migratory birds on the Mediterranean islands Capri and Antikythera were screened for Bartonella spp. RNA. One or more ticks were found on 2.7% of the birds. Most ticks were Hyalomma rufipes nymphs and larvae with mean infestation rates of 1.7 nymphs and 0.6 larvae per infested bird. Bartonella spp. RNA was not detected in any of the tick specimens.

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Bartonellaemerging infectionmigratory birdstickszoonosis

Identifiers

PMID22957116
PMCPMC3426335

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