Ticks and bacterial tick-borne pathogens in Piemonte region, Northwest Italy
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F60076658%3A12310%2F17%3A43895754" target="_blank" >RIV/60076658:12310/17:43895754 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10493-017-0202-2" target="_blank" >https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10493-017-0202-2</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10493-017-0202-2" target="_blank" >10.1007/s10493-017-0202-2</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Ticks and bacterial tick-borne pathogens in Piemonte region, Northwest Italy
Original language description
A molecular screening for tick-borne pathogens was carried out in engorged and in questing ticks collected in Verbano Cusio Ossola county, Piemonte region, Italy. Engorged ticks were removed from wild and domestic animal hosts. The most abundant and common tick species in the area was Ixodes ricinus (192 adults, 907 nymphs). Few individuals of Ixodes hexagonus (15) and Rhipicephalus sanguineus (7) were found among the ticks removed from domestic animals (46 examined ticks). The presence of Rickettsia spp., Borrelia burgdorferi sensu latu, Francisella tularensis and Coxiella burnetii was evaluated by PCR and sequencing in 392 individuals of I. ricinus (adult and nymphal stages) and 22 individuals of the two other tick species. Five Borrelia species (i.e. B. burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. garinii, B. afzelii, B. valaisiana and B. lusitaniae), proved or suspected to cause clinical manifestations of Lyme disease in humans, showed 10.5 and 2.2% combined prevalence in questing and engorged I. ricinus, respectively. In addition, two species of rickettsiae (R. helvetica and R. monacensis) were identified and reported with 14.5 and 24.8% overall prevalence in questing and in engorged ticks. The prevalence of F. tularensis in the ticks collected on two wild ungulate species (Capreolus capreolus and Cervus elaphus) was 5.7%. This work provided further data and broadened our knowledge on bacterial pathogens present in ticks in Northwest Italy.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10606 - Microbiology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Experimental and Applied Acarology
ISSN
0168-8162
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
73
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3-4
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
15
Pages from-to
477-491
UT code for WoS article
000417864800014
EID of the result in the Scopus database
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