The first detection of relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes ricinus ticks from the northeast Czech Republic

Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F68378050%3A_____%2F22%3A00562743" target="_blank" >RIV/68378050:_____/22:00562743 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/62690094:18470/22:50020360
Result on the web
<a href="https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.102042" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.102042</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.102042" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ttbdis.2022.102042</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The first detection of relapsing fever spirochete Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes ricinus ticks from the northeast Czech Republic
Original language description
Borrelia miyamotoi, a relapsing fever spirochete, is considered a human pathogen. Knowledge of this borrelia is currently limited. Data about its potential impact on public health, circulation in nature, or its occurrence in natural environments are insufficient. For our study, a total of 505 questing Ixodes ricinus ticks (337 nymphs, 85 females and 83 males) from Hradec Kr ' alove ' Region in the Czech Republic were collected. Additionally, 160 winged Lipoptena deer keds from Hradec Kr ' alove ' Region, from Pardubice Region, Czech Republic, and from one location in western Slovakia were collected. The presence of B. miyamotoi in ticks and deer keds was determined using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) targeting a gene encoding glycerophosphodiester phosphodiesterase (glpQ), antigenic protein specific to the relapsing fever spirochetes. Borrelia miyamotoi was identified in six nymphs and four females of I. ricinus ticks. The overall prevalence was 2%. None of the examined Lipoptena specimens were found to be infected. Although no human case of infection with B. miyamotoi has been reported in the Czech Republic yet, this spirochete is widespread in ticks, and therefore the risk of human infection exists.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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

Project
<a href="/en/project/LM2018130" target="_blank" >LM2018130: National Infrastructure for Chemical Biology</a><br>
Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2022
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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