Characterisation of the viral communities present in Ixodes ricinus ticks from Portugal with the aim of developing PCR primers for the screening of specific bacterial and viral species.
Tick-borne bacteria pose a significant threat to human and veterinary public health. Greece is a Mediterranean country with rich tick fauna and the most commonly detected tick-borne bacterial pathogen
To study the impact of tick microbiome on vertical transmission of R. raoultii and CRT, the samples of different developmental stages from the first and second generations of laboratory- reared ticks