[Collecting with the flagging method and fixing on man of Ixodes (Trichotoixodes) frontalis (Panzer, 1795)].
As he was beginning to sort a batch of Ixodid ticks, collected with the flagging technique, the operator noticed that a female tick identified as Ixodes frontalis had fixed itself rapidly on the top of one of his finger. That species is usually considered as "strict-specific to birds". The low frequency of such a fixing on human beings, as for as we know, is of limited value from an epidemiological point of view.
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Unité INSERM 399, Laboratoire de Parasitologie, Faculté de Médecine, Marseille.
Beaucournu
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Chastel
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D000818:Animals; D001717:Birds / Q000469:parasitology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D018884:Ixodes / Q000145:classification / Q000472:pathogenicity