As the "dad of the baby" I always suggest to work with nymphs (which are very hairy and easily separated from ricinus) and, if possible, collected from lizards (the most common host for nymphs, as far as we know).
"By a hairs breadth": some ticks look almost identical, differing sometimes by just a few hairs (image from https://t.co/VVtuYlM5RI)! However, despite being morphologically very similar they may play very different roles in vectoring pathogens: https://t.c
RT @Bartonella: DNA testing of ticks in Germany confirms presence of I. inopinatus and that they are more likely to carry #Lymedisease than…
RT @Bartonella: DNA testing of ticks in Germany confirms presence of I. inopinatus and that they are more likely to carry #Lymedisease than…
DNA testing of ticks in Germany confirms presence of I. inopinatus and that they are more likely to carry #Lymedisease than I. ricinus. https://t.co/sa6Uoek3Bf
RT @Bartonella: DNA testing of ticks in Germany confirms presence of I. inopinatus and that they are more likely to carry #Lymedisease than…
DNA testing of ticks in Germany confirms presence of I. inopinatus and that they are more likely to carry #Lymedisease than I. ricinus. https://t.co/sa6Uoek3Bf
RT @Bartonella: DNA testing of ticks in Germany confirms presence of I. inopinatus and that they are more likely to carry #Lymedisease than…
DNA testing of ticks in Germany confirms presence of I. inopinatus and that they are more likely to carry #Lymedisease than I. ricinus. https://t.co/sa6Uoek3Bf
RT @bloodSparasites: #Ixodes inopinatus in northern Germany: occurrence and potential vector role for Borrelia spp., #Rickettsia spp., and…
RT @bloodSparasites: #Ixodes inopinatus in northern Germany: occurrence and potential vector role for Borrelia spp., #Rickettsia spp., and…
#Ixodes inopinatus in northern Germany: occurrence and potential vector role for Borrelia spp., #Rickettsia spp., and #Anaplasma phagocytophilum in comparison with #Ixodes ricinus https://t.co/USVzWlWU0l ParasitRes