Volume 11, Number 11, November 2005

Anaplasma phagocytophilum–infected Ticks, Japan

Norio Ohashi,*† Megumi Inayoshi,*‡ Kayoko Kitamura,* Fumihiko Kawamori,*‡ Daizoh Kawaguchi,* Yuusaku Nishimura,* Hirotaka Naitou,* Midori Hiroi,*‡ and Toshiyuki Masuzawa*†
*University of Shizuoka, Shizuoka, Japan; †Center of Excellence Program in the 21st Century, Shizuoka, Japan; and ‡Shizuoka Institute of Environment and Hygiene, Shizuoka, Japan

Figure 1. Areas in Shizuoka, Nagano, and Yamanashi Prefectures of Japan where Ixodes persulcatus and I. ovatus ticks were collected in 2003 and 2004. Closed circles indicate collection sites. Numbers of ticks collected at each site are shown in parentheses. UG, Utsukushigahara; TK, Takabachi; MZ, Mizugazuka; TN, Tennyosan; UM, Utsukushinomori.

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