Rickettsial pathogens in the tropical rat mite Ornithonyssus bacoti (Acari: Macronyssidae) from Egyptian rats (Rattus spp.)

Experimental and Applied Acarology

Volumn 41, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 101-107

  Reeves, Will K ^a   Loftis, Amanda D ^b   Szumlas, Daniel E ^c   Abbassy, Magda M ^d   Helmy, Ibrahim M ^d   Hanafi, Hanafi A ^d   Dasch, Gregory A ^b  

^a MS G 13 ^*  (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c Navy Disease Vector Ecology and Control Center   (United States)

^d US Naval Medical Research Unit No 3   (United States)

Author keywords

Bartonella; Black rat; Egypt; Mites; Norway rat; Ornithonyssus bacoti; Rickettsia

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DISEASE; BACTERIUM; DETECTION METHOD; DISEASE VECTOR; DNA; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HORIZONTAL TRANSMISSION; INTERMEDIATE HOST; MITE; PATHOGENICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EGYPT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MITE; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITOLOGY; RAT; RICKETTSIA;

ANIMALS; EGYPT; MITES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RATS; RICKETTSIA;

AFRICA; EGYPT; NORTH AFRICA;

ACARI; ANIMALIA; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); BARTONELLA; COXIELLA BURNETII; MACRONYSSIDAE; ORNITHONYSSUS BACOTI; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RATTUS RATTUS; RICKETTSIA;

EID: 33947528095     PISSN: 01688162     EISSN: 15729702     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10493-006-9040-3     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Bakr ME, Morsy TA, Nassef NEA, El Meligi MA (1995) Mites infesting commensal rodents in Shebin El Kom, Menoufia G., Egypt. J Egypt Soc Parasitol 25:853-859
2. Boulouis H, Chang C, Henn JB, Kasten RW, Chomel BB (2005) Factors associated with the rapid emergence of zoonotic Bartonella infections. Vet Res 36:383-410
3. Comer JA, Tzianabos T, Flynn C, Vlahov D, Childs JE (1999) Serologic evidence of rickettsialpox (Rickettsia akari) infection among intravenous drug users in inner-city Baltimore, Maryland. Am J Trop Med Hyg 60:894-898
4. Corwin A, Habib M, Olson J, Scott D, Ksiazek T, Watts DM (1992) The prevalence of arboviral, rickettsial, and Hantaan-like viral antibodies among schoolchildren in the Nile River Delta of Egypt. Trans Royal Soc Trop Med Hyg 86:677-679
5. Daly JS, Worthington MG, Brenner DJ, Moss CW, Hollis DG, Weyant RS Steigerwalt AG, Weaver RE, Daneshvar MI, O'Connor SP (1993) Rochalimaea elizabethae sp. nov. isolated from a patient with endocarditis. J Clin Microbiol 31:872-881
6. Ellis BA, Regnery RL, Beati L, Bacellar F, Rood M, Glass GG, Marston E, Ksiazek TG, Jones D, Childs JE (1999) Rats of the genus Rattus are reservoir hosts for pathogenic Bartonella species: an Old World origin for a New World disease? J Infect Dis 180:220-224
7. Guedes E, Leite RC, Prata MC, Pacheco RC, Walker DH, Labruna MB (2005) Detection of Rickettsia rickettsii in the tick Amblyomma cajennense in a new Brazilian spotted fever-endemic area in the state of Minas Gerais. Mem Inst Oswaldo Cruz 100:841-845
8. Huebner RJ, Jellison WL, Pomerantz C (1946) Rickettsialpox - a newly recognized rickettsial disease IV. Isolation of a Rickettsia apparently identical with the causative agent of rickettsialpox from Allodermanyssus sanguineus, a rodent mite. Pub Health Rep 61:1677-1682
9. Imam IZ, Megid SA (1966) Preliminary notes on typhus among rodents in U.A.R. J Egypt Pub Health Ass 41:133-143
10. Lindo JF, Waugh C, Hall J, Cunningham-Myrie C, Ashley D, Eberhard ML, Sullivan JJ, Bishop HS, Robinson DG, Holtz T, Robinson RD (2002) Enzootic Angiostrongylus cantonensis in Rats and Snails after an Outbreak of Human Eosinophilic Meningitis, Jamaica. Emerg Infect Dis 8:324-326
11. Loftis AD, Reeves WK, Szumlas DE, Abbassy MM, Helmy IM, Moriarity JR, Dasch GA (2006a) Surveillance of Egyptian fleas for agents of public health significance: Anaplasma, Bartonella, Coxiella, Ehrlichia, Rickettsia, and Yersinia pestis. Am J Trop Med Hyg 75:41-48
12. Loftis AD, Reeves WK, Szumlas DE, Abbassy MM, Helmy IM, Moriatiry JR, Dasch GA (2006b) Rickettsial agents in Egyptian ticks collected from domestic animals. Exp App Acarology 40:67-81
13. Moriarity JR, Loftis AD, Dasch GA (2005) High-throughput molecular testing of ticks using a liquid-handling robot. J Med Ent 42:1063-1067
14. Osborn DJ, Helmy I (1980) The contemporary land mammals of Egypt (including Sinai). Fieldiana Zool (New Series) 5:1-579
15. Perlman SJ, Hunter MS, Zchori-Fein E (2006) The emerging diversity of Rickettsia. Proc Biol Sci 273:2097-2106
16. Reeves WK, Nelder MP, Korecki JA (2005) Bartonella and Rickettsia in fleas and lice from mammals in South Carolina, USA. J Vector Ecol 30:310-315
17. Reeves WK, Easterbrook JD, Loftis AD, Glass GE (2006a) Serologic evidence for Rickettsia typhi and an ehrlichial agent in Norway Rats from Baltimore, Maryland, USA. Vector-Borne Zoonotic Dis 6:244-247
18. Reeves WK, Szumlas DE, Moriarity JR, Loftis AD, Abbassy MM, Helmy IM, Dasch GA (2006b) Louse-borne bacterial pathogens in lice (Phthiraptera) of rodents and cattle from Egypt. J Parasitol 92:313-318
19. Reeves WK, Dowling APG, Dasch GA. (2006c) Rickettsial agents from parasitic Dermanyssoidea (Acari: Mesostigmata). Exp App Acarol 38:181-188
20. Renz A, Wenk P (1981) Intracellular development of the cotton-rat filaria Litomosoides carinii in the vector mite Ornithonyssus bacoti. Trans Royal Soc Trop Med Hyg 75:166-168
21. Sekeyova Z, Roux V, Raoult D (2001) Phylogeny of Rickettsia spp. inferred by comparing sequences of 'gene D', which encodes an intracytoplasmic protein. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 51:1353-1360
22. Shoukry A, Morsy TA, Abu Hashish TA, El Kady GA (1986) Seasonal activities of two commensal rats and flea index in north Sinai Governorate, Egypt. J Egypt Soc Parasitol 16:385-393
23. Shoukry A, El Kady GA, Morsym TA, Salama MMI (1993) Rodents and their arthropod ectoparasites in south Sinai Governorate, Egypt. J Egypt Soc Parasitol 23:775-783
24. Soliman S, Main AJ, Marzouk AS, Montasser AA (2001) Seasonal studies of commensal rats and their ectoparasites in a rural area of Egypt: the relationship of ectoparasites to the species, locality, and relative abundance of the host. J Parasitol 87:545-553
25. Strandtmann RW, Wharton GW (1958) Manual of Mesostigmatid Mites. Institute of Acarology. College Park, Maryland, 400 pp
26. Traub R, Wisseman CL, Farhang-Azad A (1978) The ecology of murine typhus- a critical review. Trop Dis Bull 75:237-317
27. Walter DE, Shaw M (2005) Mites and disease. In: Marquardt WC (ed) Biology of Disease Vectors. Elsevier Academic Press, Amsterdam, pp 25-44
28. Webb L, Carl M, Malloy DC, Dasch GA, Azad AF (1990) Detection of murine typhus infection in fleas by using the polymerase chain reaction. J Clin Micro 28:530-534
29. Younis TA, Fayad ME, El Hariry MA, Morsy TA (1995) Interaction between Acari ectoparasites and rodents in Suez Governorate, Egypt. J Egypt Soc Parasitol 25:377-394
30. Yunker CE (1964) Infections of laboratory animals potentially dangerous to man: ectoparasites and other arthropods, with emphasis on mites. Lab Animal Care 14:455-465
31. Zeaiter Z, Fournier P, Ogata H, Raoult D (2002) Phylogenetic classification of Bartonella species by comparing groEL sequences. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol 52:165-171