[Treatment of Borrelia infected ticks (author's transl)]

The Ornithodorus tholozani, carrier and main reservoir of Borrelia persica, causing agent of the regional recurrent fever in Iran, gets rid of the infection by stuffing in blood containing a cycline type antibiotic, in an adequate concentration. The treatment efficiency is 100%, confirmed on 60 infected ticks who showed to be free from Borrelia after a treatment meal, so that the crushing of their whole body, inoculated to the guinea-pig, the most sensitive animal to Borrelia persica, remains always non pathogenic. There is not a single risk or danger, neither for man nor for the environment, in the application of this method, which ensures only the cure of Borrelia reservoir ticks, without affecting or disturbing their natural balance. This method could be used successfully in the future.