Saisongkorh Watcharee, Wootta Wattanapong, Sawanpanyalert Pathom, Raoult Didier, Rolain Jean-Marc
Université de la Méditerranée, Unité des Rickettsies, URMITE CNRS-IRD, UMR 6236, Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie, Marseille 13385, France.
Vet Microbiol. 2009 Oct 20;139(1-2):197-201. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2009.05.011. Epub 2009 Jun 6.
Bartonella species, intracellular parasite of erythrocytes and endothelial cells, are zoonotic pathogens of wild and domestic animals including rodents. Many species of rodents are commensally infected with a few Bartonella species in Asia. However, there are only few reports on detection of Bartonella in Thailand. Our objective was to detect the presence of Bartonella species in rodents from Thailand. Among 247 rodents captured in five provinces from Thailand we identified Bartonella species using molecular methods targeting three genes i.e. citrate synthase (gltA), beta-subunit of the RNA polymerase (rpoB) and cell division protein gene (ftsZ) and the 16S-23S rRNA intergenic spacer (ITS). Overall, we found 21 rodents being infected with a Bartonella species including seven B. coopersplainsensis, four B. phoceensis, six B. queenslandensis, one B. rochalimae, one Bartonella sp. RN24BJ and two genotypes of a new Bartonella that we propose to give the provisional status "Candidatus Bartonella thailandensis". To the best of our knowledge, these Bartonella species have been detected for the first time in Thailand.
巴尔通体属细菌是红细胞和内皮细胞的细胞内寄生虫，是包括啮齿动物在内的野生动物和家畜的人畜共患病原体。在亚洲，许多啮齿动物种类都共生感染了几种巴尔通体属细菌。然而，关于在泰国检测到巴尔通体的报道却很少。我们的目的是检测泰国啮齿动物中巴尔通体属细菌的存在情况。在从泰国五个省份捕获的247只啮齿动物中，我们使用针对三个基因即柠檬酸合酶（gltA）、RNA聚合酶β亚基（rpoB）和细胞分裂蛋白基因（ftsZ）以及16S - 23S rRNA基因间隔区（ITS）的分子方法鉴定巴尔通体属细菌。总体而言，我们发现21只啮齿动物感染了巴尔通体属细菌，其中包括7只库珀斯普林斯巴尔通体、4只福斯巴尔通体、6只昆士兰巴尔通体、1只罗氏巴尔通体、1株巴尔通体RN24BJ以及两种基因型的一种新巴尔通体，我们提议将其暂定为“泰国巴尔通体（Candidatus Bartonella thailandensis）”。据我们所知，这些巴尔通体属细菌在泰国是首次被检测到。
