Ticks parasitising humans and collected by app-users, results 2017/2018

The tick species Ixodes ricinus serves as a vector for numerous human pathogens of bacterial, viral, or protozoic origin. Our research documents the presence of pathogens in ticks parasitizing humans. This demonstrates the risk of acquiring multiple infections as a consequence of a tick bite. Poster-App-Zecke-ITBD-Vienna-2019-A4-Handout

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Links Swiss Reference Centre for Tick-Transmitted Diseases (NRZK / CNRT): https://www.labor-spiez.ch/en/die/bio/endiebionrz.htm

App “Tick prevention” https://www.zhaw.ch/en/lsfm/business-services/institute-of-natural-resource-sciences/ticks/

Institute of microbiology, CHUV, Lausanne http://www.chuv.ch/laboratoires/dl-laboratoire-diagnostic-institut-microbiologie.htm

ADMED Microbiology http://admed.ne.ch/f/page/200/