Synanthropic rodents and their ectoparasites as carriers of a novel haemoplasma and vector-borne, zoonotic pathogens indoors.
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Synanthropic rodents and their ectoparasites as carriers of a novel haemoplasma and vector-borne, zoonotic pathogens indoors.
Létrehozó:
Hornok, Sándor
Földvári, Gábor
Rigó, Krisztina
Meli, Marina L.
Gönczi, Enikő
Répási, Attila
Farkas, Róbert
Papp, Ibolya
Kontschán, Jenő
Hofmann-Lehmann, Regina
Dátum:
2015
Téma:
QH540 Ecology / ökológia
QR Microbiology / mikrobiológia
RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine / közegészségügy, higiénia, betegség-megelőzés
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BACKGROUND
Despite their close association with human dwellings, the role of synanthropic rodents in the epidemiology of vector-borne infections is seldom studied. The aim of the present study was to compensate for this lack of information, by the molecular investigation of vector-borne bacteria in peridomestic rodents and their ectoparasites.
FINDINGS
Fifty-two rodents (mainly house mice and brown rats) were caught alive in buildings and checked for blood-sucking ectoparasites; followed by molecular analysis of these, together with spleen samples, for the presence of vector-borne agents. Haemoplasma infection was significantly more prevalent among brown rats, than among house mice. A novel haemoplasma genotype (with only 92-93% similarity to Candidatus Mycoplasma turicensis and M. coccoides in its 16S rRNA gene) was detected in a harvest mouse and a brown rat. Sporadic occurrence of Rickettsia helvetica, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. and Bartonella sp. was also noted in rodents and/or their ectoparasites.
CONCLUSIONS
These results indicate that synanthropic rodents, although with low prevalence, may carry zoonotic and vector-borne pathogens indoors.
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Azonosító:
Hornok, Sándor and Földvári, Gábor and Rigó, Krisztina and Meli, Marina L. and Gönczi, Enikő and Répási, Attila and Farkas, Róbert and Papp, Ibolya and Kontschán, Jenő and Hofmann-Lehmann, Regina (2015) Synanthropic rodents and their ectoparasites as carriers of a novel haemoplasma and vector-borne, zoonotic pathogens indoors. PARASITES AND VECTORS, 8. p. 27. ISSN 1756-3305
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