Journal article
Surveillance of Ixodes ricinus ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in Iceland.
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Background
Ixodes ricinus is a three-host tick, a principal vector of Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.) and one of the main vectors of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus. Iceland is located in the North Atlantic Ocean with subpolar oceanic climate. During the past 3-4 decades, average temperature has increased, supporting more favourable conditions for ticks. Reports of I. ricinus have increased in recent years. If these ticks were able to establish in a changing climate,...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Parasites & vectors Journal website
- Volume:
- 10
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 466
- Publication date:
- 2017-10-10
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-09-10
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1756-3305
- Pmid:
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29017579
- Source identifiers:
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735456
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:735456
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uuid:de7918b6-8200-4e73-8a00-da485450adcd
- Local pid:
- pubs:735456
- Deposit date:
- 2017-10-16
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- Copyright holder:
- Alfredsson et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- © The Author(s). 2017 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Public Domain Dedication (CC0)
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