Workshop on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases : Berlin, September 30th-October 2nd, 2014 : joint meeting of the German Society for Mediacl Entomology and Acarology (DGMEA) and the Workshop on Tick-borne Diseases of the National Reference Laboratory for Q-Fever, Jena, Germany / publisher: Federal Environment Agency, Division IV; Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute, Federal Research Institute for Animal Health ; editors: Birgit Habedank (Federal Environment Agency), Georg v. Samson-Himmelstjerna (Freie Universität Berlin), Reiner Pospischil (German Society for Medical Entomology and Acarology (DGMEA)) and Klaus Henning (Friedrich-Loeffler-Institute)

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The “Workshop on Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases” took place September 30th to October 2nd , 2014 in Berlin as a joint meeting of the German Society of Medical Entomology and Acarology (DGMEA) and the “Workshop on Tick-borne Diseases” of the National Reference Laboratory for Q Fever of the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut. This joint meeting was organized by the Umweltbundesamt (UBA) - Federal Environment Agency, Section IV 1.4 – Health pests and their control, in close cooperation with the German Society for Medical Entomology and Acarology (DGMEA), the Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut (FLI), National Reference Laboratory for Q Fever and the Freie Universität Berlin – Free University Berlin, Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine.