Prevalence and geographical distribution of canine hemotropic mycoplasma infections in Mediterranean countries and analysis of risk factors for infection

Veterinary Microbiology

Volumn 142, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 276-284

  Novacco, Marilisa ^a   Meli, Marina L ^a   Gentilini, Fabio ^b   Marsilio, Fulvio ^c   Ceci, Chiara ^c   Pennisi, Maria Grazia ^d   Lombardo, Gabriella ^d   Lloret, Albert ^e   Santos, Laura ^e   Carrapiço, Tiago ^f   Willi, Barbara ^a   Wolf, Godelind ^a   Lutz, Hans ^a   Hofmann Lehmann, Regina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TERAMO   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MESSINA   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^f Clinica Veterinaria Canham   (Portugal)

Author keywords

'Candidatus Mycoplasma haematoparvum'; Canine hemotropic mycoplasma; Kennel; Mycoplasma haemocanis; Rhipicephalus sanguineus; TaqMan real time PCR

Indexed keywords

GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; RIBONUCLEASE P; RNA 16S;

AGE; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS BREEDING; DOG DISEASE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; ITALY; MALE; MANGE; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMATOPARVUM; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOCANIS; MYCOPLASMOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PORTUGAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPAIN;

ANIMALS; DNA, BACTERIAL; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; MEDITERRANEAN REGION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA INFECTIONS; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

CANDIDATUS MYCOPLASMA HAEMATOPARVUM; CANIS FAMILIARIS; IXODIDA; MYCOPLASMA; MYCOPLASMA HAEMOCANIS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS;

EID: 77952091920     PISSN: 03781135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2009.09.069     Document Type: Article

References (33)

1. Aeschlimann A., Büttiker W., Elbl A., Hoogstraal H. A propos des tiques de Suisse (Arachnoidea, Acarina, Ixodoidea). Rev. Suisse Zool. 1965, 72:577-583.
2. Bellamy J.E., MacWilliams P.S., Searcy G.P. Cold-agglutinin hemolytic anemia and Haemobartonella canis infection in a dog. J. Am. Vet. Med. Assoc. 1978, 173:397-401.
3. Benjamin M.M., Lumb W.V. Haemobartonella canis infection in a dog. J. Am. Vet. Med. Assoc. 1959, 135:388-390.
4. Bland M. An Introduction to Medical Statistics 2000, Oxford University Press, Oxford. 3rd ed.
5. Boretti F.S., Perreten A., Meli M.L., Cattori V., Willi B., Wengi N., Hornok S., Honegger H., Hegglin D., Woelfel R., Reusch C.E., Lutz H., Hofmann-Lehmann R. Molecular Investigations of Rickettsia helvetica infection in dogs, foxes, humans, and Ixodes ticks. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2009, 75:3230-3237.
6. Brennan S.J., Ngeleka M., Philibert H.M., Forbes L.B., Allen A.L. Canine brucellosis in a Saskatchewan kennel. Can. Vet. J. 2008, 49:703-708.
7. Caeiro V. General review of tick species present in Portugal. Parassitologia 1999, 41(Suppl. 1):11-15.
8. Chalker V.J. Canine mycoplasmas. Res. Vet. Sci. 2005, 79:1-8.
9. Coppinger R., Zuccotti J. Kennel enrichment: exercise and socialization of dogs. J. Appl. Anim. Welf. Sci. 1999, 2:281-296.
10. Dantas-Torres F. The brown dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus (Latreille, 1806) (Acari: Ixodidae): from taxonomy to control. Vet. Parasitol. 2008, 152:173-185.
11. Di Todaro N., Piazza C., Otranto D., Giangaspero A. Ticks infesting domestic animals in Italy: current acarological studies carried out in Sardinia and Basilicata regions. Parassitologia 1999, 41(Suppl. 1):39-40.
12. Duclos D.D., Jeffers J.G., Shanley K.J. Prognosis for treatment of adult-onset demodicosis in dogs: 34 cases (1979-1990). J. Am. Vet. Med. Assoc. 1994, 204:616-619.
13. Gilot B., Laforge M.L., Pichot J., Raoult D. Relationships between the Rhipicephalus sanguineus complex ecology and Mediterranean spotted fever epidemiology in France. Eur. J. Epidemiol. 1990, 6:357-362.
14. Gretillat S. Haemobartonella canis (Kikuth, 1928) in the blood of dogs with parvovirus disease. J. Small Anim. Pract. 1981, 22:647-653.
15. Hoskins J.D. Canine haemobartonellosis, canine hepatozoonosis, and feline cytauxzoonosis. Vet. Clin. North Am. Small Anim. Pract. 1991, 21:129-140.
16. Kemming G.I., Messick J.B., Enders G., Boros M., Lorenz B., Muenzing S., Kisch-Wedel H., Mueller W., Hahmann-Mueller A., Messmer K., Thein E. Mycoplasma haemocanis infection-a kennel disease?. Comp. Med. 2004, 54:404-409.
17. Kenny M.J., Shaw S.E., Beugnet F., Tasker S. Demonstration of two distinct hemotropic mycoplasmas in French dogs. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2004, 42:5397-5399.
18. Marquez-Jimenez F.J., Hidalgo-Pontiveros A., Contreras-Chova F., Rodriguez-Liebana J.J., Muniain-Ezcurra M.A. Ticks (Acarina: Ixodidae) as vectors and reservoirs of pathogen microorganisms in Spain. Enferm. Infecc. Microbiol. Clin. 2005, 23:94-102.
19. Messick J.B. New perspectives about Hemotrophic mycoplasma (formerly, Haemobartonella and Eperythrozoon species) infections in dogs and cats. Vet. Clin. North Am. Small Anim. Pract. 2003, 33:1453-1465.
20. Messick J.B., Walker P.G., Raphael W., Berent L., Shi X. 'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemodidelphidis' sp. nov., 'Candidatus Mycoplasma haemolamae' sp. nov. and Mycoplasma haemocanis comb. nov., haemotrophic parasites from a naturally infected opossum (Didelphis virginiana), alpaca (Lama pacos) and dog (Canis familiaris): phylogenetic and secondary structural relatedness of their 16S rRNA genes to other mycoplasmas. Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 2002, 52:693-698.
21. Oteo J.A., Portillo A., Santibanez S., Perez-Martinez L., Blanco J.R., Jimenez S., Ibarra V., Perez-Palacios A., Sanz M. Prevalence of spotted fever group Rickettsia species detected in ticks in La Rioja, Spain. Ann. N.Y. Acad. Sci. 2006, 1078:320-323.
22. Paradies P., Capelli G., Testini G., Cantacessi C., Trees A.J., Otranto D. Risk factors for canine neosporosis in farm and kennel dogs in southern Italy. Vet. Parasitol. 2007, 145:240-244.
23. Rinaldi L., Otranto D., Veneziano V., Milillo P., Buono V., Iori A., Di Giulio G., Cringoli G. Cross-sectional survey of ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in sheep from an area of the southern Italian Apennines. Exp. Appl. Acarol. 2004, 33:145-151.
24. Saitou N., Nei M. The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees. Mol. Biol. Evol. 1987, 4:406-425.
25. Seneviratna P., Weerasinghe, Ariyadasa S. Transmission of Haemobartonella canis by the dog tick, Rhipicephalus sanguineus. Res. Vet. Sci. 1973, 14:112-114.
26. Sieber-Ruckstuhl N.S., Meli M.L., Boretti F.S., Gonczi E., Lutz H., Reusch C.E. Quantitative real-time PCR for the measurement of 11beta-HSD1 and 11beta-HSD2 mRNA levels in tissues of healthy dogs. Horm. Metab. Res. 2007, 39:548-554.
27. Sykes J.E., Bailiff N.L., Ball L.M., Foreman O., George J.W., Fry M.M. Identification of a novel hemotropic mycoplasma in a splenectomized dog with hemic neoplasia. J. Am. Vet. Med. Assoc. 2004, 224:1946-1951.
28. Tamura K., Dudley J., Nei M., Kumar S. MEGA4: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis (MEGA) software version 4.0. Mol. Biol. Evol. 2007, 24:1596-1599.
29. Tasker S., Helps C.R., Day M.J., Harbour D.A., Shaw S.E., Harrus S., Baneth G., Lobetti R.G., Malik R., Beaufils J.P., Belford C.R., Gruffydd-Jones T.J. Phylogenetic analysis of hemoplasma species: an international study. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2003, 41:3877-3880.
30. Thompson J.D., Higgins D.G., Gibson T.J. CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice. Nucleic Acids Res. 1994, 22:4673-4680.
31. Torina A., Caracappa S. Dog tick-borne diseases in Sicily. Parassitologia 2006, 48:145-147.
32. Wengi N., Willi B., Boretti F.S., Cattori V., Riond B., Meli M.L., Reusch C.E., Lutz H., Hofmann-Lehmann R. Real-time PCR-based prevalence study, infection follow-up and molecular characterization of canine hemotropic mycoplasmas. Vet. Microbiol. 2008, 126:132-141.
33. Willi B., Boretti F.S., Baumgartner C., Tasker S., Wenger B., Cattori V., Meli M.L., Reusch C.E., Lutz H., Hofmann-Lehmann R. Prevalence, risk factor analysis, and follow-up of infections caused by three feline hemoplasma species in cats in Switzerland. J. Clin. Microbiol. 2006, 44:961-969.