Ticks
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elektronický časopis
- Konspekt
- Patologie. Klinická medicína
- NLK Obory
- virologie
- infekční lékařství
- NLK Publikační typ
- elektronické časopisy
Wild birds are common hosts of ticks and can transport them for long distances, contributing to the spreading of tick-borne pathogens. The information about ticks on birds and tick-borne pathogens in Greece is limited. The present study aimed to evaluate the prevalence and species of ticks infesting wild resident birds (mostly small passerines) in Greece, and to assess Borrelia and Rickettsia infection in the collected ticks. Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. was performed by nested PCR targeting the flaB gene. Rickettsia spp. were detected by PCR targeting the gltA and ompA genes. Seven (2 %) out of 403 birds examined in northern Greece in 2013 were infested with 15 ticks, identified as Ixodes frontalis, Ixodes acuminatus, Hyalomma marginatum, Hyalomma aegyptium and Hyalomma sp. All ticks were negative for Borrelia spp. while four of them were positive for rickettsiae (Rickettsia aeschlimannii in H. aegyptium and Rickettsia sp. in I. frontalis, H. aegyptium and H. marginatum). Ixodes acuminatus is reported for the first time in Greece and Sylvia borin is reported as a new host record for I. acuminatus.
- MeSH
- Borrelia izolace a purifikace MeSH
- divoká zvířata * MeSH
- infestace klíšťaty epidemiologie parazitologie veterinární MeSH
- Ixodidae mikrobiologie MeSH
- nemoci ptáků epidemiologie mikrobiologie parazitologie MeSH
- Passeriformes MeSH
- ptáci MeSH
- Rickettsia izolace a purifikace MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- Geografické názvy
- Řecko epidemiologie MeSH
