Anaplasmataceae closely related to Ehrlichia chaffeensis and Neorickettsia helminthoeca from birds in Central Europe, Hungary
| Autor: | Nóra Takács, Jenő Kontschán, Sándor Boldogh, Sándor Hornok, Alexandra Juhász, Balázs Koleszár, Dorottya Földi, Sándor Szekeres, Pál Morandini, Miklós Gyuranecz |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Bacterial 0301 basic medicine Neorickettsia Short Communication 030231 tropical medicine Zoology Context (language use) Polymerase Chain Reaction Microbiology Neorickettsia helminthoeca Birds 03 medical and health sciences Coxiella 0302 clinical medicine RNA Ribosomal 16S Borrelia Animals Ehrlichia chaffeensis Rickettsia Francisella Molecular Biology Phylogeny Hungary biology Bird Diseases Ehrlichia General Medicine biology.organism_classification Tick-borne Anaplasmataceae Bacterial Typing Techniques Europe 030104 developmental biology Vector-borne Piroplasm |
| Zdroj: | Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek |
| ISSN: | 1572-9699 0003-6072 |
| Popis: | Increasing amount of data attest that (in the context of vector-borne infections) birds are not only important as hosts of blood-sucking arthropod vectors, but also as reservoirs of vector-borne pathogens. From 2015 to 2019 cadavers of 100 birds (from 45 species, nine orders) were collected in Hungary, and their organs were screened for DNA from a broad range of vector-borne bacteria with PCR and sequencing. Molecular analyses revealed the presence of Anaplasmataceae, and sequencing identified bacteria closely related to Neorickettsia helminthoeca and Ehrlichia chaffeensis in a Eurasian teal (Anas crecca) and a song thrush (Turdus philomelos), respectively. All samples were PCR negative for rickettsiae, borreliae, Francisella and Coxiella spp., as well as for piroplasms. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a Neorickettsia and an Ehrlichia sp., which belong to the phylogenetic groups of N. helminthoeca and E. chaffeensis, respectively, from Europe. The potential presence of these two vector-borne bacteria needs to be taken into account during future studies on the eco-epidemiology of Anaplasmataceae in Europe. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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