Borrelia lusitaniae in Immature Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) feeding on common wall lizards in Tuscany, central Italy

Journal of Medical Entomology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 303-307

  Amore, Giuseppina ^a   Tomassone, Laura ^a   Grego, Elena ^a   Ragagli, Charlotte ^a,b   Bertolotti, Luigi ^a   Nebbia, Patrizia ^a   Rosati, Sergio ^a   Mannelli, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^b Ufficio Territoriale per la Biodiversità   (Italy)

Author keywords

Barrelia lusitaniae; Italy; Ixodes ricinus; Podarcis muralis

Indexed keywords

ACARI; APODEMUS; AVES; BORRELIA; BORRELIA LUSITANIAE; BORRELIA VALAISIANA; IXODES RICINUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE; MUS; PASSERIFORMES; PODARCIS MURALIS; RICINUS COMMUNIS; RODENTIA; SAURURUS CERNUUS; SQUAMATA; TURDUS MERULA;

EID: 34247491608     PISSN: 00222585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jmedent/44.2.303     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Altschul, S. F., T. L. Madden, A. A. Schaffer, J. Zhang, Z. Zhang, W. Miller, and D. J. Lipman. 1997. Gapped BLAST and PSI-BLAST: a new generation of protein database search programs. Nucleic Acids Res. 25: 3389 -3402.
2. Bertolotti, L., L. Tomassone, C. Tramuta, E. Grego, G. Amore, C. Ambrogi, P. Nebbia, and A. Mannelli. 2006. Borrelia lusitaniae and spotted fever group rickettsiae in Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) in Tuscany, central Italy. J. Med. Entomol. 43: 159-165.
3. Collares-Pereira, M., S. Couceiro, I. Franca, K. Kurtenbach, S. M. Schafer, L. Vitorino, L. Goncalves, S. Baptiste, M. L. Vieira, and C. Cunha. 2004. First isolation of Borrelia lusitaniae from a human patient. J. Clin. Microbiol. 42: 1316-1318.
4. d'Oliveira, C., M. van der Weide, P. Jacquiet, and F. Jongejan. 1997. Detection of Theileria annulata by PCR in ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) collected from cattle in Maurtania. Exp. Appl. Acarol. 21: 279-291.
5. Dsouli, N., H. Younsi-Kabachii, D. Postic, S. Nouira, L. Gern, and A. Bouattour. 2006. Reservoir role of lizard Psammodromus algirus in transmission cycle of Borrelia burgdarferi sensu lato (Spirochaetaceae) in Tunisia. J. Med. Entomol. 43: 737-742.
6. nd ed. Wiley, New York.
7. Gern, L., and P. F. Humair. 1998. Natural history of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. Wien Klin Wochenschr. 110: 856-858.
8. Gern, L., A. Estrada-Pena, F. Frandsen, J. S. Gray, T. G. Jaenson, F. Jongejan, O. Kahl, E. Korenberg, R. Mehl, and P. A. Nuttall. 1998. European reservoir hosts of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato. Zentralbl. Bakteriol. 287:196-204.
9. Güner, E. S., N. Hashimoto, N. Takada, K. Kaneda, Y. Imai, and T. Masuzawa. 2003. First isolation and character ization of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato strains from Ixodes ricinus ticks in Turkey. J. Med. Microbiol. 52: 807-813.
10. Jouda, F., J. L. Perret, and L. Gern. 2004. Density of questing Ixodes ricinus nymphs and adults infected by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Switzerland: spatio-temporal pattern at a regional scale. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 4: 23-32.
11. Kurtenbach, K., M Peacey, S. G. Rijpkema, A. N. Hoodless, P. A. Nuttall, and S. E. Randolph. 1998. Differential transmission of the genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato by game birds and small rodents in England. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 64: 1169-1174.
12. Kurtenbach, K, S. M. Schafer, H. S. Sewell, M. Peacey, A. Hoodless, P. A. Nuttall, and S. E. Randolph. 2002. Differential survival of Lyme borreliosis spirochetes in ticks that feed on birds. Infect. Immunol. 70: 5893-5895.
13. Lencakova, D., C. Hizo-Teufel, B. Pet'ko, U. Schulte-Spechtel, M. Stanko, B. Wilske, and V. Fingerle. 2006. Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi s.l. OspA types in Ixodes ricinus ticks from selected localities in Slovakia and Poland. Int. J. Med. Microbiol. 296: 108-118.
14. Littell, R.C., W.W. Stroup, and R.J. Freund. 2002. SAS® for linear models, 4th ed. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.
15. Manilla, G. 1998. Acari, Ixodida (Fauna d'ltalia 36). Edizioni Calderoni, Bologna, Italy.
16. Mannelli, A., P. Nebbia, C. Tramuta, E. Grego, L. Tomassone, R. Ainardi, L. Venturini, D. De Meneghi, and P. G. Meneguz. 2005. Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato infection in larval Ixodes ricinus (Acari: Ixodidae) feeding on blackbirds in northwestern Italy. J. Med. Entomol. 42:168-175.
17. Pichon, B., D. Egan, M. Rogers, and J. Gray. 2003. Detection and identification of pathogens and host DNA in unfed host-seeking Ixodes ricinus L. (Acari: Ixodidae). J. Med. Entomol. 40: 723-731.
18. Poupon, M. A., E. Lommano, P. F. Humair, V. Douet, O. Rais, M. Schaad, L. Jenni, and L. Gern. 2006. Prevalence of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in ticks collected from migratory birds in Switzerland. J. Med. Entomol. 72:976979.
19. Randolph, S. E., D. Miklisova, J. Lysy, D. J. Rogers, and M. Labuda. 1999. Incidence from coincidence: patterns of tick infestations on rodents facilitate transmission of tickborne encephalitis virus. Parasitology 118: 177-186.
20. Richter, D., and F. R. Matuschka. 2006. Perpetuation of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia lusitaniae by lizards. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 72: 4627-4632.
21. Rijpkema, S. G., M. J. Molkenboer, L. M. Schouls, F. Jongejan, andj. F. Schellekens. 1995. Simultaneous detection and genotyping of three genomic groups of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in Dutch Ixodes ricinus ticks by characterization of the amplified intergenic spacer region between 5S and 23S rRNA genes. J. Clin. Microbiol. 33: 3091-3095.
22. Sarih, M., F. Jouda, L. Gern, and D. Postic. 2003. First isolation of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato from Ixodes ricinus ticks in Morocco. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 3: 133-139.
23. SAS Institute. 1999. SAS/STA® user's guide, version 8. SAS Institute, Cary, NC.
24. Wodecka, B., and B. Skotarczak. 2005. First isolation of Borrelia lusitaniae DNA from Ixodes ricinus ticks in Poland. Scand. J. Infect. Dis. 37: 27-34.
25. Yeh, M. T., J. M. Bak, R. Hu, M. C. Nicholson, C. Kelly, and T. N. Mather. 1995. Determining the duration of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) attachment to tick-bite victims. J. Med. Entomol. 32: 853-858.
26. Younsi, H., M. Sarih, F. Jouda, E. Godfroid, L. Gern, A. Bouattour, G. Baranton, and D. Postic. 2005. Characterization of Borrelia lusitaniae isolates collected in Tunisia and Morocco. J. Clin. Microbiol. 43: 1587-1593.