Assessment of the risk of contracting Lyme disease in areas with significant human presence

• Autor(a) principal: Milutinovic,M.
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Outros Autores: Radulovic,Z., Tomanovic,S.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Arquivo brasileiro de medicina veterinária e zootecnia (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102-09352008000100018
• topic: tick; Ixodes ricinus; Lyme disease; risk rate

In order to describe seasonal changes in Lyme diseases risk rate at three localities in Serbia, during the period of 2003-2005, a total of 1542 Ixodes ricinus ticks (493 nymphs, 525 females and 524 males) were examined. The prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi in Ixodes ricinus ticks at the Bovan Lake County were higher than the average for European localities (45.9% for adults and 18.8% for nymphs). In Mt. Avala and Kljajicevo counties adults and nymphs were, respectively, infected at the following percentages: 26.3, 10.7; 16.2 and 7.6%. The outcome indicates a relatively high risk of the contracting Lyme disease in all investigates areas.