Motoi Y, Satoh H, Inokuma H, Kiyuuna T, Muramatsu Y, Ueno H, Morita C
Department of Veterinary Public Health, Rakuno-Gakuen University, Ebetu, Hokkaido, Japan.
Microbiol Immunol. 2001;45(1):89-91. doi: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2001.tb01263.x.
We investigated Ehrlichia platys infection of dogs and ticks in Okinawa, Japan. Using E. platys specific primers, E. platys and HE3-R, PCR-positive results were obtained with 32.0% (64/200) of blood samples of dogs and 3.8% (3/77) of ticks. The nucleotide sequences of the amplified DNA fragment from the dogs and the ticks infesting them were identical, and the sequence corresponded to that of the E. platys Gzh981 strain. We concluded that there is a cyclic maintenance of E. platys between dogs and ticks in Okinawa.
我们调查了日本冲绳犬类和蜱虫的犬埃立克体感染情况。使用犬埃立克体特异性引物E. platys和HE3-R，在200份犬血样中有32.0%（64/200）、77份蜱虫中有3.8%（3/77）获得了PCR阳性结果。从犬类及其身上寄生的蜱虫中扩增出的DNA片段的核苷酸序列相同，且该序列与犬埃立克体Gzh981菌株的序列一致。我们得出结论，在冲绳，犬埃立克体在犬类和蜱虫之间存在周期性传播。
