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Chapter 3: Transmission / Natural cycle

Table 1: Tick species, tick habitats, and involved hosts in relation to the TBEV
subtype and distribution

Vector
Tick species Main Tick competence **
(subgenus) habitats 6,17,148 hosts 6,17,148 ype and geographic Reference
distribution

Radda 1973;
Kožuch et al. 1967;
Alekseev et al.1996;
Major vector of the Demina et al. 2010;
European subtype
Reptiles, Süss 2011;
Ixodes (Ixodes) Deciduous birds, in central, Wojcik-Fatla et al.
ricinus 70,78,91, 138- and mixed mammals, ES, SS eastern and 2011;
forests northern Europe
human Stefanoff et al.2013;
and of the Siberian Katargina et al.2013;
subtypes
Biernat et al. 2014;
Drelich et al. 2014;
Cuber et al. 2015

A vicariant,
Deciduous marginal
Ixodes (I.) Birds,
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gibbosus and mixed mammals ES possible vector Hubalek and Rudolf 2012
forests in the
Mediterranean

TBEV persistence
and transmission
to white mice;
Ixodes Lichard and Kozuch
(Pholeoixodes) Nests and Birds ES considered to be a 1967; Gresikova &
burrows secondary
49,50
arboricola Kaluzova 1997
amplifying vector
of TBEV in wild
populations

Ixodes
(Pholeoixodes) Nests Birds SS Demina et al. 2010
140
lividus

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