Biodiversity Research Cluster, Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, Mahidol University, Rama 6 Road, Bangkok, 10400, Thailand.
Folia Microbiol (Praha). 2013 Sep;58(5):419-28. doi: 10.1007/s12223-013-0222-1. Epub 2013 Jan 22.
The symbiotic microorganisms of arthropod vectors are highly significant from several points of view, partly due to their possible roles in the transmission of pathogenic causative agents by blood-sucking vectors. Although ticks are well studied because of their significance to human health, novel microbial associations remain to be described. This review summarises several endosymbiotic bacterial species in hard ticks from various parts of the world, including Coxiella-, Francisella-, Rickettsia- and Arsenophonus-like symbionts as well as Candidatus Midichloria mitochondrii and Wolbachia. New methodologies for the isolation and characterization of tick-associated bacteria will, in turn, encourage new strategies of tick control by studying their endosymbionts.
节肢动物媒介的共生微生物具有重要意义，部分原因是它们可能在吸血媒介传播病原体方面发挥作用。虽然蜱虫因其对人类健康的重要性而得到很好的研究，但仍有新的微生物共生关系有待描述。本文综述了来自世界各地硬蜱中的几种内共生细菌，包括柯克斯体样、弗朗西斯菌样、立克次体样和放线菌样共生体，以及候选中微菌属和沃尔巴克氏体。用于分离和鉴定蜱相关细菌的新方法反过来也将通过研究它们的内共生体来鼓励控制蜱虫的新策略。
