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| Title: | Infestation of mice and voles with Ixodes ricinus ticks in Lithuania and Norway |
| Authors: | Paulauskas, Algimantas
Radzijevskaja, Jana
Rosef, Olav
Turcinaviciene, Jurga
Ambrasiene, Daiva |
| Issue Date: | 2009 |
| Publishers version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3176/eco.2009.2.05 |
| Abstract: | A total of 693 small rodents were live-trapped in Lithuania and Norway. In Lithuania, the
mice Apodemus flavicollis and A. agrarius were more frequently infested with ticks than the voles
Microtus arvalis and Myodes glareolus. The overall prevalence of infestation with Ixodes ricinus
in different sampling locations of Lithuania ranged for A. flavicollis from 0% to 92.3%, for
M. glareolus from 5.9% to 100%, and for M. arvalis from 0% to 37.8%. In Norwegian sites the
prevalence of infestation was higher for A. flavicollis (62.7 98% in different sites) than for
A. sylvaticus (42.9 77.8%). The most intensive infestation of rodents with I. ricinus larvae was
observed in May and June. Contrasting patterns of infestation with larvae and nymphs were observed
in males and females of M. glareolus and A. flavicollis. |
| Keywords: | Small rodents
Ixodes ricinus
larvae
Nymphs
Prevalence
Infestation |
| Publisher: | Estonian Academy of Sciences |
| Document type: | Journal article |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2282/1000 |
| Appears in Collections: | Institutt for natur-, helse- og miljøvernfag
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