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  <dc:contributor>A. Bouattour</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>C.M. Hu</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>M. Gharbi</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>A. Aeschliman</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>H. S. Ginsberg</dc:contributor>
  <dc:contributor>L. Gern</dc:contributor>
  <dc:creator>E. Zhioua</dc:creator>
  <dc:date>1999</dc:date>
  <dc:description>&lt;p&gt;Free-living adult &lt;i&gt;Ixodes ricinus&lt;/i&gt; L. were collected in Amdoun, situated in the Kroumiry mountains in northwestern Tunisia (North Africa). Using direct fluorescence antibody assay, the infection rate of field-collected &lt;i&gt;I. ricinus&lt;/i&gt; by &lt;i&gt;Borrelia burgdorferi&lt;/i&gt; sensu lato was 30.5% (n = 72). No difference in infection rate was observed between male and female ticks. Spirochetes that had been isolated from &lt;i&gt;I. ricinus&lt;/i&gt; from Ain Drahim (Kroumiry Mountains) in 1988 were identified as &lt;i&gt;Borrelia lusitaniae&lt;/i&gt; (formerly genospecies PotiB2). This is the first identification of a genospecies of &lt;i&gt;Borrelia burgdorferi&lt;/i&gt; sensu lato from the continent of Africa.&lt;/p&gt;</dc:description>
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  <dc:identifier>10.1093/jmedent/36.2.216</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>en</dc:language>
  <dc:publisher>Oxford University Press</dc:publisher>
  <dc:title>Infection of Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in North Africa</dc:title>
  <dc:type>article</dc:type>
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