TY - JOUR AU - Palomar, Ana AU - Santibáñez, Paula AU - Mazuelas, David AU - Roncero, Lidia AU - Santibáñez, Sonia AU - Portillo, Aránzazu AU - Oteo, José T1 - Role of Birds in Dispersal of Etiologic Agents of Tick-borne Zoonoses, Spain, 2009 T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2012 VL - 18 IS - 7 SP - 1188 SN - 1080-6059 AB - We amplified gene sequences from Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Borrelia garinii, B. valaisiana, B. turdi, Rickettsia monacensis, R. helvetica, R. sibirica sibirica, and Rickettsia spp. (including Candidatus Rickettsia vini) in ticks removed from birds in Spain. The findings support the role of passerine birds as possible dispersers of these tick-borne pathogens. KW - Anaplasma phagocytophilum KW - bird KW - ticks KW - Borrelia burgdorferi KW - Rickettsia spp. KW - (Borrelia turdi KW - Ixodes arboricola KW - Rickettsia sibirica KW - Rickettsia vini KW - Spain) KW - birds KW - Borrelia turdi KW - Spain KW - Rickettsia KW - vector-borne infections KW - rickettsiae DO - 10.3201/eid1807.111777 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/18/7/11-1777_article ER - End of Reference