Department of Laboratory Medicine, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Zluty kopec 7, 656 53 Brno, Czech Republic.
Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2012 Sep;3(4):265-8. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.06.001. Epub 2012 Jul 27.
We examined 77 Ixodes ricinus ticks found on 33 out of 120 common nightingales (Luscinia megarhynchos) sampled in the Czech Republic in 2008 for the presence of Borrelia spirochetes, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Rickettsia spp., and Babesia spp. We detected Borrelia garinii (in 4% of ticks), A. phagocytophilum (1%), Rickettsia helvetica (3%), a novel strain of Rickettsia sp. (sister taxon of R. bellii; 1%), and Babesia sp. EU1 (1%). Thus, we conclude that nightingales are unlikely to be important reservoir hosts for tick-borne pathogens.
我们检查了 2008 年在捷克共和国采集的 120 只普通夜莺（Luscinia megarhynchos）中的 33 只夜莺身上的 77 只硬蜱，以检测是否存在螺旋体菌、嗜吞噬细胞无形体、立克次体属和巴贝虫属。我们检测到了伯氏疏螺旋体（4%的蜱虫）、嗜吞噬细胞无形体（1%）、瑞士立克次体（3%）、一种新型立克次体（贝氏立克次体的姐妹分类单元；1%）和巴贝虫 EU1（1%）。因此，我们得出结论，夜莺不太可能是蜱传病原体的重要储存宿主。
