TICK-BORNE LYMPHADENOPATHY - SPAIN

TIBOLA
Seroprevalence surveys:
- 8 percent of healthy persons and 26.1 percent of dogs in Catalonia
- highest rates in semirural areas (1997)
- 8.7 percent of persons in southern Spain (2002)
- 3.4 percent of persons in southern Spain (Bar29 infection, 2006 publication)
- 3.7 percent of persons in Catalonia (Rickettsia slovaca, 2008 publication)
- 56.4 percent of dogs in northeastern Spain (2006 publication)
- 24.6 percent of dogs in Ourense and Pontevedra (northwestern Spain,2008 publication)
- 44 percent of cats in northeastern Spain (2006 publication)

Spotted Fever-group Rickettsia in Spain
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