@article {40151,
	title = {Ectoparasites of large wild mammals (deer and wild boars) and lyme Borreliosis - search for Borrelia burgdorferi in more than 1400 ticks, lice, pupipares and fleas},
	journal = {Revue De Medecine Veterinaire},
	volume = {145},
	year = {1994},
	month = {1994},
	pages = {743 - 748},
	abstract = {Within an epidemiological study on the importance of hematophagous arthropods for the Lyme borreliosis in France, we looked for B. burgdorferi sensu lato, by indirect immunofluorescence, in more than 1 400 ectoparasites collected on 131 large wild mammals (15 red-dears, 59 roe-deers, 54 wild boars and 3 foxes) caught or killed in winter mainly in Brittany, Vendee and Sologne. Thus were examined 1 251 Ixodid ticks: 953 Ixodes ricinus (among them, 3,7 per cent of nymphs and adults positive), 257 Dermacentor reticulatus adults (2,3 per cent positive), 38 Haemaphysalis concinna adults (1 positive) and 3 Ixodes hexagonus females (2 positive). Were also studied 83 Anoploura: 73 Haematopinus suis (2 positive) and 10 Solenopotes burmeisteri (negative); 65 Pupipara: Lipoptena cervi (1 positive); 7 Siphonaptera: 3 Pulex irrants and 4 Paraceras melis (negative). If the presence of B. burgdorferi in Anoploura and Pupipara needs to be confirmed, it is the first time that this agent is found in Haemaphysalis concinna.},
	keywords = {agent, animals, Borrelia, ectoparasite, France, hexagonus, immunofluorescence, infections, lyme, mammal, serological, wild},
	author = {Doby,J. M. and Bigaignon,G. and Degeilh,B. and Guiguen,C.}
}
