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. The possibility of acquiring multiple infections by a tick bite demonstrates the risk potential and the importance of applied research. Poster ITBD Vienna 2019, Ticks parasitizing humans
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Swiss Reference Centre for Tick-Transmitted Diseases (NRZK / CNRT), Labor Spiez
Prevention-App “Zecke – Tick prevention”
Institute of microbiology, CHUV, Lausanne
ADMED Microbiology