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Such a high prevalence of Bartonella in ticks is surprising and may be because ticks were collected while they were feeding on bacteriemic hosts (30, 31 ).

Because ticks were collected from cracks filled with guillemot guano and the fungal isolates were associated with the surface of ticks, the most likely source of the fungus is bird excrement.

Because the ticks were collected from animals which could have been already infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, we can therefore only say that these ticks are potential vectors.

Because these ticks were collected as engorged nymphs from wild rodents in a natural biome of Argentina, namely, the Chaco phytogeographic domain (5, 6 ), our results indicate that C. burnetii is established in this part of the country where ticks possibly play an essential role in the enzootic cycle.

Our findings have relevance for public health because the infected ticks were collected from the lower Paraná River Delta near the origin of several recently identified cases of eschar-associated rickettsiosis (7 ; Alfredo Seijo, pers. comm).

Adult ticks were collected because nymphal ticks are more difficult to obtain, and the infection rate in adult ticks is similar (1 ).

Because of the nidicolous nature of I. trianguliceps, no questing ticks were collected.

In addition, ticks were collected from these dogs.

Altogether, 2300 ticks were collected from the vegetation, while 431 were collected from rodents.

TBEV-positive ticks were collected from small mammals or from the vegetation.

A total of 552 ticks were collected from eight of the ten sampled greenspaces.