Wuhan University School of Health Sciences, Wuhan, Hubei, China.
Shandong University School of Public Health, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Parasit Vectors. 2018 May 29;11(1):317. doi: 10.1186/s13071-018-2902-9.
To increase understanding of human bacterial and parasitic pathogens in bats, we investigated the prevalence of Babesia spp., Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma spp. and Coxiella burnetii in bats from China.
Bats were captured from Mengyin County, Shandong Province of China using nets. DNA was extracted from the blood and spleen of bats for molecular detection of Babesia spp., Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma spp. and Coxiella burnetii with specific primers for each species.
A total of 146 spleen samples and 107 blood samples of insectivorous bats, which belonged to 6 species within two families, were collected from Mengyin County, Shandong Province of China. We found that two Eptesicus serotinus (2/15, 13.3%) were positive for Babesia vesperuginis. We were unable to detect genomic sequences for Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma spp. and Coxiella burnetii.
To our knowledge, our study showed for the first time the presence of Babesia vesperuginis in Eptesicus serotinus collected from China, suggesting that Babesia vesperuginis has a broad host species and geographical distribution.
为了提高对蝙蝠中人类细菌和寄生虫病原体的认识，我们调查了中国蝙蝠中巴贝斯虫、立克次体、无形体和贝纳柯克斯体的流行情况。
我们使用网从中国山东省蒙阴县捕获蝙蝠。从蝙蝠的血液和脾脏中提取 DNA，并用针对每种物种的特定引物进行分子检测，以检测巴贝斯虫、立克次体、无形体和贝纳柯克斯体。
我们从中国山东省蒙阴县共收集了 146 份脾脏样本和 107 份吸血蝙蝠血液样本，这些蝙蝠属于两个科的 6 个种。我们发现，两只棕蝠（2/15，13.3%）对巴贝斯虫属vesperuginis 呈阳性。我们无法检测到立克次体、无形体和贝纳柯克斯体的基因组序列。
据我们所知，我们的研究首次表明，在中国采集的棕蝠中存在巴贝斯虫属 vesperuginis，表明巴贝斯虫属 vesperuginis 具有广泛的宿主物种和地理分布。
