Bekloo Ahmad Jafar, Bakhshi Hasan, Soufizadeh Ayoub, Sedaghat Mohammad Mehdi, Bekloo Romina Jafar, Ramzgouyan Maryam Roya, Chegeni Asadollah Hosseini, Faghihi Faezeh, Telmadarraiy Zakkyeh
School of Medicine, Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS), Tehran, Iran.
Department of Medical Entomology and Vector Control, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Vet Parasitol. 2017 Dec 15;248:21-24. doi: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2017.10.015. Epub 2017 Nov 6.
Ticks serve as important vectors of some pathogens of medical importance all over the world and identification of their rate of infection plays an important role for further control of diseases. In the current study, we investigated on ticks collected from north of Iran where raising and caring livestock are the main task of the people in order to find evidences of infection of Babesia, Theileria, Anaplasma and Ehrlichia microbial agents. Totally, 609 hard tick species from two genera Hyalomma and Rhipicephalus including; Hy. scupense, Hy. dromedarii, Hy. rufipes, Hy. marginatum, Hy. asiaticum, Hy. anatolicum, R. bursa, R. sanguineus and R. turanicus were identified. Molecular analysis revealed the presence of Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, Babesia and Theileria microorganism agents in all collected tick species except Hy. asiaticum and R. turanicus. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on identification of B. occultans in Hyalomma anatolicum and B. ovis in Hyalomma sp in Iran.
蜱虫是全球一些具有医学重要性的病原体的重要传播媒介，确定它们的感染率对进一步控制疾病起着重要作用。在当前的研究中，我们对从伊朗北部采集的蜱虫进行了调查，那里人们的主要任务是饲养和照料牲畜，以便寻找巴贝斯虫、泰勒虫、无形体和埃立克体微生物病原体感染的证据。总共鉴定出了来自璃眼蜱属和硬蜱属的609种硬蜱，包括：边缘璃眼蜱、单峰璃眼蜱、红足璃眼蜱、边缘璃眼蜱、亚洲璃眼蜱、安纳托利亚璃眼蜱、波斯锐缘蜱、血红扇头蜱和图兰扇头蜱。分子分析显示，除亚洲璃眼蜱和图兰扇头蜱外，在所有采集的蜱虫种类中均存在无形体、埃立克体、巴贝斯虫和泰勒虫微生物病原体。据我们所知，这是伊朗首次关于在安纳托利亚璃眼蜱中鉴定出隐匿巴贝斯虫以及在璃眼蜱属中鉴定出绵羊巴贝斯虫的报告。
