M'ghirbi Youmna, Service D'Entomologie Médicale, Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia.
Transbound Emerg Dis. 2010 Apr;57(1-2):49-51. doi: 10.1111/j.1865-1682.2010.01110.x.
A total 576 adult ixodid ticks, collected in seven sites in Northern Tunisia, were analysed for piroplasm infection. Reverse line blot analysis identified nine different piroplasms, with an overall prevalence of 22.7%. 17.8% were Theileria spp. positive, 8.5% were positive for Babesia spp. and 3.6% of ticks harboured both genera. Although, most of the positive ticks harboured a single infection (17%), mixed infections with two, three or four different piroplasm species were also detected (5.7%).
共分析了来自突尼斯北部七个地点的 576 只成年硬蜱，以检测血液原生动物感染情况。反向线印迹分析鉴定出 9 种不同的血液原生动物，总感染率为 22.7%。17.8%的 tick 感染了泰勒虫属，8.5%的 tick 感染了巴贝斯虫属，3.6%的 tick 同时感染了这两个属。尽管大多数阳性 tick 只感染了一种（17%），但也检测到了两种、三种或四种不同的血液原生动物物种的混合感染（5.7%）。
