Acknowledgements
The authors are very grateful to all the volunteers who helped in the
capture of small mammals and to the French forestry agency, ONF, which
authorised trapping in Murbach forest. The authors would also like to
thank Philippe Desprès, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France for providing
recombinant proteins SNAP-TBEV EDIII and SNAP. We thank the “Tiques et
Maladies a Tiques (TMT)” group ‘of the “Reseau Ecologie des
Interactions Durables” (REID) for stimulating discussion and support.