Orientia tsutsugamushi infection in rodents in Anhui Province of China
| Autor: | Xiao Cheng Zhang, Zhen Chen, Yan Liu, Adams Latif, Yong Sun, Xue Jie Yu, Xiao Ning Liu, Bo-Yu Liu, Jia Jia Li, Yong Lin Shi, Cui Pin Ren, Jia Zong |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical) Apodemus agrarius China Orientia tsutsugamushi 030231 tropical medicine Rodentia Microbiology Animal Diseases 03 medical and health sciences Niviventer niviventer 0302 clinical medicine Genotype Genetics Animals Molecular Biology Pathogen Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics Phylogeny biology Host (biology) virus diseases Sequence Analysis DNA bacterial infections and mycoses biology.organism_classification Virology Infection rate 030104 developmental biology Infectious Diseases Scrub Typhus Genes Bacterial |
| Zdroj: | Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases. 56 |
| ISSN: | 1567-7257 |
| Popis: | We conducted an investigation of Orientia tsutsugamushi infection among rodents in non-endemic areas in Anhui Province. Fifty-six (56) rodents including 44 Apodemus agrarius and 12 Niviventer niviventer were trapped and captured in autumn in the fields of three counties in Anhui Province. DNA samples were amplified and sequenced for the 56kDa protein gene of Orientia tsutsugamushi. The overall infection rate in the rodents was 23.2%(13/56). The rate of detection of O. tsutsugamushi in Apodemus agrarius and Niviventer niviventer were 27.3% and 8.3% respectively. Moreover, we identified two genotypes (Karp and Gilliam strains) of Orientia tsutsugamushi in rodents. Our study demonstrated that Apodemus agrarius is the main host for O. tsutsugamushi pathogen and this is the first report of Karp and Gilliam strains in these non-endemic areas in Anhui Province. |
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