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ArticlePathogens (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Tick Species Identification and Zoonotic Bacteria Detection from Healthcare-Extracted Specimens from Humans in the Basque Country, Northern Iberian Peninsula.

Patirke Ibarrondo-Mendiola, Patricia Vázquez, Miriam Alkorta, Cristina Zugazaga, Ana L García-Pérez, Jesús F Barandika, Aitor Cevidanes

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Article in Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of tick bites in a Spanish tertiary hospital: a three-year retrospective study.European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Patirke Ibarrondo-MendiolaDepartment of Animal Health, NEIKER-Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), 48160 Derio, Spain.ORCID 0009-0004-5889-6193
Patricia VázquezDepartment of Animal Health, NEIKER-Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), 48160 Derio, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4582-202X
Miriam AlkortaDepartment of Microbiology, Donostia University Hospital, 20014 Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain.
Cristina ZugazagaDepartment of Microbiology, Basurto University Hospital, 48013 Bilbao, Spain.
Ana L García-PérezDepartment of Animal Health, NEIKER-Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), 48160 Derio, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-7404-1380
Jesús F BarandikaDepartment of Animal Health, NEIKER-Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), 48160 Derio, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-3346-195X
Aitor CevidanesDepartment of Animal Health, NEIKER-Basque Institute for Agricultural Research and Development, Basque Research and Technology Alliance (BRTA), 48160 Derio, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-1874-6399

Funding

European Union EU-LIFE project 18 IPC/ES/000001European Union Interreg POCTEFA PyrTick project EFA100/01MCIN RYC2021-033084-INIEHS NIH HHS Y01 ES000001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hard ticks are vectors of a wide range of pathogens, with tick-borne bacteria being among the most frequently detected. This study presents a first approach to the identification of human-biting ticks in the Basque Country (northern Iberian Peninsula), where previous research has mainly focused on ticks from vegetation and domestic and wild animals. The aim of this study was (i) to identify tick species collected in hospitals and health centres and (ii) to determine the presence and identify of pathogenic bacteria that they may carry using PCR, RLB and sequencing methods. A total of 181 ticks were collected and grouped in pools of one, two or three specimens, resulting in 157 samples. Morphological and molecular identification of collected ticks revealed that most specimens belonged to

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BacteriaIxodidaeTick-Borne DiseasesTicksZoonosesAnimalsBorreliaDNA, BacterialHumansSpainDNA, Bacterialhuman-biting ticksIxodes ricinusLyme diseasepassive entomologic surveillancezoonotic tick-borne bacteria

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PMID40559569
PMCPMC12196088

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