Figure 1.
Sites of tick collections, a minimum infection rate (MIR) is shown in percentages.
Sympatric area for I. persulcatus and I. ricinus tick species is dashed according to Karelis [15] and Golovljova unpublished data.
Table 1.
Primers and probe used for the detection of TBEV in Real Time PCR and nested PCR.
Table 2.
Detection of TBEV in ticks in the Baltic countries.
Figure 2.
Phylogenetic tree (Maximum Likelihood) based on the partial E short gene (367 bp) sequences (A) and on the NS3 protein encoding sequences (631 bp) (B) of TBEV.
Sequences detected in the present study are shown in bold. Only support values exceeding 70% are shown. GenBank accession numbers of the sequences are given in Table S1.