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Effect of forest clearing on the abundance of Ixodes ricinus ticks and the prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l

SYSNO ASEP	0040718
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Ostatní články
Title	Effect of forest clearing on the abundance of Ixodes ricinus ticks and the prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l
Title	Vliv proklestění lesa na abundanci klíštěte obecného Ixodes ricinus a na prevalenci spirochét Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. v klíšťatech
Author(s)	Hubálek, Zdeněk (UBO-W)_{RID, SAI, ORCID} Halouzka, Jiří (UBO-W)_SAI Juřicová, Zina (UBO-W)_{RID, SAI} Šikutová, Silvie (UBO-W)_{RID, SAI, SAI, ORCID} Rudolf, Ivo (UBO-W)_{RID, ORCID, SAI}
Source Title	Medical and Veterinary Entomology - ISSN 0269-283X Roč. 20, č. 2 (2006), s. 166-172
Number of pages	7 s.
Language	eng - English
Country	GB - United Kingdom
Keywords	Ixodes ricinus ; Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato ; Lyme borreliosis risk
Subject RIV	FN - Epidemiology, Contagious Diseases ; Clinical Immunology
R&D Projects	GA206/03/0726 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
CEZ	AV0Z60930519 - UBO-W (2005-2011)
DOI	10.1111/j.1365-2915.2006.00615.x
Annotation	Host-seeking Ixodes ricinus were collected on a forest trail completely cleared in winter 2002/03 from shrub and ground vegetation (treated forest, TF), and on a nearby control uncleared forest transect (untreated forest, UF) in South Moravia (Czech Republic) each May in 2003, 2004 and 2005. Nymphal ticks were 3.4 times, 1.9 times and 1.2 times less frequent on TF than on UF in the three respective years, while abundance of adult ticks decreased much more profoundly, 27.2 times, 4.0 times and 2.2 times, respectively. Prevalence of nymphal ticks infected with Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. (12.6% to 20.0%) did not differ significantly between TF and UF during the 3 years. The habitat modification therefore caused a decreased abundance of I. ricinus as well as a declined frequency of infected ticks (and thus indirectly a lower potential risk of human Lyme borreliosis) which lasted, however, only for 2 years.
Workplace	Institute of Vertebrate Biology
Contact	Hana Slabáková, slabakova@ivb.cz, Tel.: 543 422 524
Year of Publishing	2007

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