Abstract
Four hundred adult unfed taiga ticks (Ixodes persulcatus) collected in the Cisural region, Russia, were analyzed by means of PCR with primers specific for the DNA sequences of disease agents pathogenic for humans: Borrelia afzelii,B. garinii, Ehrlichia muris, Anaplasma pagocytophilum, Babesia microti, and Rickettsia spp. Only the DNA of B. microti was never found, DNA of at least one of the other agents was detected in 326 ticks (81.5%), 166 ticks (41.5%) contained DNA of two or more agents (17 variants of mixed infections were revealed), and five ticks (1.3%) proved to contain DNA of four or five agents. These results confirm that, as a rule, antagonistic relationships between disease agents do not take place in the tick body
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