Tick-borne pathogens in Ixodes ricinus ticks collected from migratory birds in southern Norway

Autor: Benedikte Nevjen Pedersen, Andrew Jenkins, Vivian Kjelland
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Bacterial Diseases
0301 basic medicine
Life Cycles
Social Sciences
Disease Vectors
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
medicine.disease_cause
Polymerase Chain Reaction
Ticks
0302 clinical medicine
Medicine and Health Sciences
Prevalence
Psychology
Rickettsia
Flowering Plants
Tick-borne disease
Multidisciplinary
Animal Behavior
Coinfection
Norway
Eukaryota
Plants
Bacterial Pathogens
Spring
Anaplasmataceae
Infectious Diseases
Medical Microbiology
Tick-Borne Diseases
Vertebrates
Medicine
Seasons
Pathogens
Research Article
Anaplasma phagocytophilum
DNA
Bacterial
Ixodes ricinus
Borrelia Burgdorferi
Arthropoda
Science
030106 microbiology
030231 tropical medicine
Zoology
Biology
Tick
Microbiology
Birds
03 medical and health sciences
Borrelia
Arachnida
parasitic diseases
medicine
VDP::Matematikk og Naturvitenskap: 400::Basale biofag: 470
Animals
Borrelia burgdorferi
Microbial Pathogens
Behavior
Bacteria
Ixodes
Ricinus
Bird Diseases
Organisms
Biology and Life Sciences
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
bacterial infections and mycoses
Invertebrates
Borrelia Infection
Nymphs
Tick Infestations
Species Interactions
Rickettsia helvetica
Amniotes
Earth Sciences
Animal Migration
Developmental Biology
Zdroj: PLOS ONE
e0230579
PLoS ONE, Vol 15, Iss 4, p e0230579 (2020)
PLoS ONE
Popis: Birds are important hosts for the first life stages of the Ixodes ricinus tick and they can transport their parasites over long distances. The aim of this study was to investigate the prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Neoehrlichia mikurensis and Rickettsia helvetica in ticks collected from migratory birds in Norway. A total of 815 Ixodes ricinus ticks from 216 birds trapped at Lista Bird Observatory in southern Norway during spring and autumn migration in 2008 were analysed by real-time PCR. B. burgdorferi s. l. was the most prevalent pathogen, detected in 6.1% of the ticks. The prevalence of N. mikurensis, A. phagocytophilum and R. helvetica was 1.2%, 0.9% and 0.4% respectively. In addition, one sample (0.1%) was positive for B. miyamotoi. In total, 8.2% of the ticks were infected with at least one pathogen. Co-infection with B. burgdorferi s. l. and N. mikurensis or A. phagocytophilum was found in 6.0% of the infected ticks. Our results show that all the known major tick-borne bacterial pathogens in Norway are subject to transport by migratory birds, potentially allowing spread to new areas. Our study showed a surprisingly high number of samples with PCR inhibition (57%). These samples had been extracted using standard methodology (phenol-chloroform extraction). This illustrates the need for inhibition controls to determine true prevalence rates.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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