C. P. Gillette Museum of Arthropod Diversity, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado 80523.
Epidemiology, Parasites and Vectors, Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Research, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa.
J Parasitol. 2020 Oct 1;106(5):663-669. doi: 10.1645/20-46.
Ectoparasites were collected from Eptesicus hottentotus, the long-tailed serotine bat, caught in Namibia as part of an ecological study. Larvae of Argas transgariepinus, a blood-feeding ectoparasite of bats in Africa, were removed from 3 of 18 bats. We present scanning electron microscope images of unengorged larvae. As with other ectoparasites, this bat tick might transmit pathogens such as Borrelia and Rickettsia to their hosts as has been reported for bat ticks in Europe and North America. We screened 3 pools (25 total) of larvae of A. transgariepinus removed from the long-tailed serotine bat Eptesicus hottentotus caught in Namibia. Two microbes of unknown pathogenicity, including Rickettsia hoogstraalii, a spotted fever group pathogen, and a Rickettsiella sp. were detected by molecular techniques.
从纳米比亚捕获的长耳蝙蝠(Eptesicus hottentotus)中收集了外寄生虫，这些外寄生虫是作为生态研究的一部分捕获的。从 18 只蝙蝠中取出了 3 只感染了吸血外寄生虫鳞股软蜱(Argas transgariepinus)的幼虫。我们展示了未吸血幼虫的扫描电子显微镜图像。与其他外寄生虫一样，这种蝙蝠蜱可能会像欧洲和北美的蝙蝠蜱一样，将病原体如伯氏疏螺旋体和立克次氏体传播给宿主。我们从纳米比亚捕获的长耳蝙蝠(Eptesicus hottentotus)中筛选了 3 个(共 25 个)鳞股软蜱幼虫池。通过分子技术检测到两种未知致病性的微生物，包括斑点热群病原体霍氏立克次体(Rickettsia hoogstraalii)和一种瑞氏菌属。
