Takhampunya Ratree, Kim Heung-Chul, Chong Sung-Tae, Korkusol Achareeya, Tippayachai Bousaraporn, Davidson Silas A, Petersen Jeannine M, Klein Terry A
Diagnostic and Reemerging Disease Section, Department of Entomology, Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences, 315/6 Rajvithi Rd., Bangkok 10400, Thailand.
5th Medical Detachment/Medical Department Activity-Korea, 65th Medical Brigade, Unit 15247, APO AP 96205-5247, USA.
J Med Entomol. 2017 Nov 7;54(6):1735-1742. doi: 10.1093/jme/tjx123.
A total of 6,255 ticks belonging to three genera and six species (Haemaphysalis flava Neumann, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann, Haemaphysalis phasiana Saito, Ixodes nipponensis Kitaoka & Saito, Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, and Amblyomma testudinarium Koch) collected from May-August, 2013, at four southwestern provinces in the Republic of Korea (ROK) were submitted to the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences and assayed for selected tick-borne pathogens. One pool each of H. flava and H. phasiana was positive by PCR and sequencing for a Francisella-like endosymbiont, while all pools were negative for Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia.
2013年5月至8月间,在大韩民国四个西南部省份采集了共计6255只蜱虫,分属于三个属六个种(黄褐血蜱、长角血蜱、雉血蜱、日本硬蜱、全沟硬蜱和龟形花蜱)。这些蜱虫被送交武装部队医学科学研究所,并针对选定的蜱传病原体进行检测。黄褐血蜱和雉血蜱的每个样本池经聚合酶链式反应(PCR)和测序检测,发现一种类弗朗西斯菌内共生体呈阳性,而所有样本池针对兔热病病原体土拉弗朗西斯菌的检测均为阴性。