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The main aim of the present study was to investigate the occurrence and diversity of protozoan, bacterial and filarial parasites transmitted by blood-feeding arthropods in a red fox population in western Austria. Blood (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>= 351) and spleen (<jats:italic>n<\/jats:italic>= 506) samples from foxes were examined by PCR and sequencing and the following pathogens were identified:<jats:italic>Babesia canis<\/jats:italic>,<jats:italic>Babesia<\/jats:italic>cf.<jats:italic>microti<\/jats:italic>(syn.<jats:italic>Theileria annae<\/jats:italic>),<jats:italic>Hepatozoon canis<\/jats:italic>,<jats:italic>Anaplasma phagocytophilum<\/jats:italic>,<jats:italic>Candidatus<\/jats:italic>Neoehrlichia sp. and<jats:italic>Bartonella rochalimae<\/jats:italic>. 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