Anaplasmoses are common tick-borne zoonotic bacterial diseases of livestock and free-living ungulates from the genus Anaplasma that are recently emerging in Central Europe. The main aim of this study was to analyze the prevalence and genetic variability of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Anaplasma ovis in small ruminants and questing ticks from six different sites in Slovakia and the Czech Republic using the PCR of the msp4 gene followed by the sequence analysis. At two farms from southeastern Slovakia, 66.1% small ruminants were infected with A. ovis in contrast to one positive animal from both sites in northern Slovakia. It was represented by two different genotypes. A. phagocytophilum was present in all tested flocks with the infection prevalence ranging from 0.9% to 5.7%. None of the tested questing ticks carried A. ovis. A. phagocytophilum was detected in 1.1% and 7.8% of questing Ixodes ricinus ticks collected around the farms located in southeastern and northern Slovakia, respectively. A. phagocytophilum revealed higher intraspecific diversity than A. ovis.
- MeSH
- Anaplasma ovis genetika MeSH
- Anaplasma klasifikace genetika MeSH
- anaplasmóza mikrobiologie MeSH
- bakteriální proteiny genetika MeSH
- fylogeneze MeSH
- genetická variace * MeSH
- klíšťata mikrobiologie MeSH
- kozy MeSH
- membránové proteiny genetika MeSH
- nemoci koz mikrobiologie MeSH
- nemoci ovcí mikrobiologie MeSH
- nemoci přenášené klíšťaty mikrobiologie MeSH
- objevující se infekční nemoci mikrobiologie veterinární MeSH
- ovce MeSH
- polymerázová řetězová reakce MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- práce podpořená grantem MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Česká republika MeSH
- Slovenská republika MeSH
