Salehi-Vaziri Mostafa, Vatandoost Hassan, Sanei-Dehkordi Alireza, Fazlalipour Mehdi, Pouriayevali Mohammad Hassan, Jalali Tahmineh, Mohammadi Tahereh, Tavakoli Mahsa, Paksa Azim, Abadi Yaser Salim
Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerrging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
Department of Arboviruses and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers (National Ref Lab), Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran.
J Arthropod Borne Dis. 2020 Sep 30;14(3):286-292. doi: 10.18502/jad.v14i3.4562. eCollection 2020 Sep.
Ticks are vectors of a wide variety of pathogens that can be transmitted to humans, and tick-borne diseases are a significant public health issue worldwide. The present study was carried out on the hard tick infestation of livestock transported to Rafsanjan slaughter house in the southeast of Iran.
A cross-sectional survey was carried out biweekly from April to September 2016 to determine tick infestation of the meat-producing animals. All the livestock included in our study were thoroughly inspected for the presence of hard ticks on different parts of their bodies.
A total of 258 hard ticks were collected from the body of livestock hosts. The ticks that were sampled were classified into two genera and five species: , , , , and . was the most abundant species in the study area. More than 50 percent of the sampled ticks were collected from the body of camels brought to the slaughter house however molecular analysis showed no Crimean Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (CCHF) virus infection in tick specimens. The Sex ratio of the sampled hard ticks shows that female tick infestation was more common among the study livestock.
Due to the crucial role of hard ticks in the transmission of different pathogens to humans, additional investigations are necessary to determine the risk of consumption of infested meat-producing animals in the study area.
蜱是多种可传播给人类的病原体的传播媒介，蜱传疾病是全球重大的公共卫生问题。本研究针对运往伊朗东南部拉夫桑詹屠宰场的牲畜身上的硬蜱感染情况展开。
于2016年4月至9月每两周进行一次横断面调查，以确定产肉动物的蜱感染情况。对本研究纳入的所有牲畜的身体不同部位进行仔细检查，查看是否存在硬蜱。
共从牲畜宿主身上采集到258只硬蜱。所采集的蜱分为两个属和五个种： 、 、 、 和 。 是研究区域内数量最多的物种。超过50%的采样蜱是从送至屠宰场的骆驼身上采集到的，然而分子分析显示蜱标本中未感染克里米亚刚果出血热（CCHF）病毒。采样硬蜱的性别比例表明，雌性蜱感染在研究的牲畜中更为常见。
由于硬蜱在将不同病原体传播给人类方面的关键作用，有必要进行进一步调查，以确定研究区域内食用受感染产肉动物的风险。
