Frequent isolation of Francisella tularensis from Dermacentor reticulatus ticks in an enzootic focus of tularaemia
Language English Country England, Great Britain Media print
Document type Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
- MeSH
- Aedes microbiology MeSH
- Arthropod Vectors microbiology MeSH
- Dermacentor microbiology MeSH
- Ecosystem MeSH
- Francisella isolation & purification MeSH
- Ticks microbiology MeSH
- Ixodes microbiology MeSH
- Rabbits microbiology MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Tularemia epidemiology microbiology MeSH
- Animals MeSH
- Check Tag
- Rabbits microbiology MeSH
- Humans MeSH
- Animals MeSH
- Publication type
- Journal Article MeSH
- Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't MeSH
- Geographicals
- Czech Republic MeSH
A total of 924 questing Dermacentor reticulatus (Fabricius), 504 Ixodes ricinus (L.), sixty Haemaphysalis concinna Koch and 718 mosquitoes (Aedes spp.) were examined in a floodplain forest ecosystem during the 1994-95 outbreak of tularaemia in South Moravia, Czech Republic. Francisella tularensis was not isolated from H.concinna ticks or Aedes spp. mosquitoes, whereas twenty-one isolates were recovered from the other haematophagous arthropods. Dermacentor reticulatus revealed a significantly higher infection rate (2.6%) than I.ricinus (0.2%). This tick species acts as principal vector for tularaemia in the enzootic focus. Monitoring of D.reticulatus for F.tularensis thus seems to be a very efficient approach in the surveillance of tularaemia in the flood-plain forest ecosystems of Europe.
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Tularemia: a re-emerging tick-borne infectious disease
Ecological conditions of natural foci of tularaemia in the Czech Republic
Prevalence of borreliae in ixodid ticks from a floodplain forest ecosystem
