Aix Marseille Université, Unité de Recherche en Maladies Infectieuses et Tropicales Emergentes (URMITE), UM63, CNRS 7278, IRD 198, Inserm 1095, WHO Collaborative Center for Rickettsioses and Other Arthropod Borne Bacterial Diseases, 27 bd Jean Moulin, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France.
Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2012 Dec;3(5-6):406-10. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2012.10.001. Epub 2012 Nov 20.
Eighty Ixodes ricinus ticks collected in the Rovinka forest in Slovakia were tested by real-time and routine single-step PCR for the presence of different pathogenic and endosymbiotic bacteria. No evidence of Coxiella burnetii, Diplorickettsia massiliensis, or Bartonella spp. was found. However, we identified, as the pathogenic bacteria, Anaplasma phagocytophilum in 8%, Rickettsia helvetica in 11%, Borrelia afzelii in 9%, Bo. garinii in 8%, Bo. burgdorferi sensu stricto in 5%, Bo. valaisiana in 3%, and Bo. miyamotoi in 1% of ticks. Other bacteria with unknown or suspected pathogenicity for humans were also identified: Arsenophonus nasoniae in 25%, Spiroplasma ixodetis in 3%, Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii in 4%, Wolbachia aff. pipientis in 14%, and Ehrlichia muris in 3% of ticks. A. nasoniae was found almost exclusively in nymphs, and E. muris was only found in adult ticks. In total, 65% of ticks contained at least one species of bacteria, and 16% contained 2 or more species.
在斯洛伐克罗文卡森林采集的 80 只蓖子硬蜱通过实时和常规单步 PCR 检测,以确定是否存在不同的致病性和内共生细菌。未发现考克斯体、马提西亚氏立克次体或巴尔通体。然而,我们在 8%的蜱虫中鉴定出了致病性细菌嗜吞噬细胞无形体,在 11%的蜱虫中鉴定出了瑞士立克次体,在 9%的蜱虫中鉴定出了伯氏疏螺旋体,在 8%的蜱虫中鉴定出了伽氏疏螺旋体,在 5%的蜱虫中鉴定出了博氏疏螺旋体,在 3%的蜱虫中鉴定出了瓦尔堡疏螺旋体,在 1%的蜱虫中鉴定出了米氏疏螺旋体。还鉴定出了其他对人类具有未知或疑似致病性的细菌:在 25%的蜱虫中发现了蜂鸟阿非亚菌,在 3%的蜱虫中发现了螺旋体,在 4%的蜱虫中发现了中衣原体,在 14%的蜱虫中发现了沃尔巴克氏体,在 3%的蜱虫中发现了鼠埃立克体。蜂鸟阿非亚菌几乎只存在于若虫中,而鼠埃立克体仅存在于成蜱中。总的来说,65%的蜱虫至少携带一种细菌,16%的蜱虫携带两种或两种以上的细菌。