Ticks and tick-borne pathogens in wild birds in Greece

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F62157124%3A16270%2F16%3A43874215" target="_blank" >RIV/62157124:16270/16:43874215 - isvavai.cz</a>

Alternative codes found

RIV/62157124:16810/16:43874215

Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-016-4943-3" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-016-4943-3</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00436-016-4943-3" target="_blank" >10.1007/s00436-016-4943-3</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Ticks and tick-borne pathogens in wild birds in Greece

Original language description

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.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

40301 - Veterinary science

Project

<a href="/en/project/ED1.1.00%2F02.0068" target="_blank" >ED1.1.00/02.0068: Central european institute of technology</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Parasitology Research

ISSN

0932-0113

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

115

Issue of the periodical within the volume

5

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

2011-2016

UT code for WoS article

000374976900029

EID of the result in the Scopus database

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