Hamzah Karrar Jasim, Hasso Saleem Amin
Department of Veterinary Internal and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, Al-Qasim Green University, Babylon, Iraq.
Department of Veterinary Internal and Preventive Medicine, College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq.
Open Vet J. 2019 Oct;9(3):238-245. doi: 10.4314/ovj.v9i3.8. Epub 2019 Aug 25.
Tick-borne diseases are widely distributed among animal populations and are responsible for significant economic losses. However, little attention has been offered for screening such infections world widely. is among those neglected tick-borne pathogens, particularly in the developing countries.
This study was conducted to detect infection among sheep in three governorates of Iraq (Babylon, Wasit, and Missan) and try to identify the potential tick vector responsible for transmission among sheep in these analyzed regions.
A total of 297 blood samples and 103 ticks were collected and examined for by polymerase chain reaction using specific primers amplifying partial sequence for gene.
The results showed that about 14 out of 297 tested sheep were positive for . There was no difference between prevalence according to animal gender, age, and sampling period. Furthermore, our analysis showed that the main vectors of : , , or were not identified in three regions of Iraq (, , and were identified).
These results highlight the importance of the survey of the tick-borne bacterial infections in Iraq and in the Middle East region in general.
蜱传疾病在动物群体中广泛分布，会造成重大经济损失。然而，全球范围内对这类感染的筛查关注甚少。[病原体名称]是被忽视的蜱传病原体之一，在发展中国家尤为如此。
本研究旨在检测伊拉克三个省份（巴比伦省、瓦西特省和米桑省）绵羊中的[病原体名称]感染情况，并试图确定在这些分析区域中导致绵羊间[病原体名称]传播的潜在蜱虫媒介。
共采集了297份血液样本和103只蜱虫，使用扩增[病原体名称]基因部分序列的特异性引物，通过聚合酶链反应检测[病原体名称]。
结果显示，297只受试绵羊中约有14只为[病原体名称]阳性。根据动物性别、年龄和采样时间，[病原体名称]的患病率没有差异。此外，我们的分析表明，在伊拉克的三个地区未发现[病原体名称]的主要传播媒介（发现了[其他蜱虫种类名称]）。
这些结果凸显了在伊拉克乃至整个中东地区开展蜱传细菌感染调查的重要性。
