Molecular detection of Rickettsia massiliae, Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae and Rickettsia conorii israelensis in ticks from Israel

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 176-180

  Harrus, S ^a   Perlman Avrahami, A ^a   Mumcuoglu, K Y ^b   Morick, D ^a   Baneth, G ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hyalomma; Rhipicephalus; Rickettsia conorii israelensis; Rickettsia massiliae; Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL DNA; CITRATE SYNTHASE; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN A;

ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE LOCUS; ISRAEL; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; RICKETTSIA; RICKETTSIA CONORII ISRAELENSIS; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA MONGOLITIMONAE; SCREENING; TICK;

HYALOMMA; IXODIDA; RHIPICEPHALUS; RHIPICEPHALUS SANGUINEUS; RHIPICEPHALUS TURANICUS; RICKETTSIA CONORII; RICKETTSIA FELIS; RICKETTSIA MASSILIAE; RICKETTSIA SIBIRICA; RICKETTSIACEAE;

EID: 78751640617     PISSN: 1198743X     EISSN: 14690691     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-0691.2010.03224.x     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. Berrelha J, Briolant S, Muller F et al. Rickettsia felis and Rickettsia massiliae in Ivory Coast, Africa. Clin Microbiol Infect 2009; doi: [Epub ahead of print].
2. Parola P, Davoust B, Raoult D. Tick- and flea-borne rickettsial emerging zoonoses. Vet Res 2005; 36: 469-492.
3. Guberman D, Mumcuoglu KY, Keysary A, Ioffe-Uspensky I, Miller J, Galun R. Prevalence of spotted fever group rickettsiae in ticks from southern Israel. J Med Entomol 1996; 33: 979-982.
4. Zhu Y, Fournier PE, Eremeeva M, Raoult D. Proposal to create subspecies of Rickettsia conorii based on multilocus sequence typing and an emended description of Rickettsia conorii. BMC Microbiol 2005; 5: 1-11.
5. Bauer O, Baneth G, Eshkol T, Shaw SE, Harrus S. Polygenic detection of Rickettsia felis in cat fleas (Ctenocephalides felis) from Israel. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2006; 74: 444-448.
6. Harrus S, Baneth G. Drivers for the emergence and re-emergence of vector-borne protozoal and bacterial diseases. Int J Parasitol 2005; 35: 1309-1318.
7. Kidd L, Maggi R, Diniz PP, Hegarty B, Tucker M, Breitschwerdt E. Evaluation of conventional and real-time PCR assays for detection and differentiation of spotted fever group rickettsia in dog blood. Vet Microbiol 2008; 29: 294-303.
8. Beati L, Raoult D. Rickettsia massiliae sp. nov., a new spotted fever group rickettsia. Int J Syst Bacteriol 1993; 43: 839-840.
9. Vitale G, Mansueto S, Rolain JM, Raoult D. Rickettsia massiliae: first isolation from the blood of a patient. Emerg Infect Dis 2006; 12: 174-175.
10. Parola P, Socolovschi C, Jeanjean L et al. Warmer weather linked to tick attack and emergence of severe rickettsioses. PloS Negl Trop Dis 2008; 2: e338. [Epub ahead of print].
11. Parola P, Paddock C, Raoult D. Tick-borne rickettsioses around the world: emerging diseases challenging old concepts. Clin Microbiol Rev 2005; 18: 719-756.
12. Raoult D, Wieller PJ, Chagnon A, Chaudet H, Gallais H, Casanova P. Mediterranean spotted fever: clinical, laboratory and epidemiological features of 199 cases. Am J Trop Med Hyg 1986; 35: 845-850.
13. Giammanco GM, Vitale G, Mansueto S, Capra G, Caleca MP, Ammatuna P. Presence of Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis, the causative agent of Israeli spotted fever, in Sicily, Italy, ascertained in a retrospective study. J Clin Microbiol 2005; 43: 6027-6031.
14. de Sousa R, Santos-Silva M, Santos AS et al. Rickettsia conorii Israeli tick typhus strain isolated from Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks in Portugal. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis 2007; 7: 444-447.
15. Weinberger M, Keysary A, Sandbank J et al. Fatal Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis infection, Israel. Emerg Infect Dis 2008; 14: 821-824.
16. Wolach B, Franco S, Bogger-Goren S et al. Clinical and laboratory findings of spotted fever in Israeli children. Pediatr Infect Dis J 1989; 8: 152-155.
17. Harrus S, Lior Y, Ephros M et al. Rickettsia conorii in humans and dogs: a seroepidemiologic survey of two rural villages in Israel. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2007; 77: 133-135.
18. Fournier P, Xeridat EB, Raoult D. Isolation of a rickettsia related to Astrakhan fever rickettsia from a patient in Chad. Ann NY Acad Sci 2003; 990: 152-157.
19. Yu X, Fan M, Xu G, Liu Q, Raoult D. Genotypic and antigenic identification of two new strains of spotted fever group rickettsiae isolated from China. J Clin Microbiol 1993; 31: 83-88.
20. Parola P, Inokuma H, Camicas JL, Brouqui P, Raoult D. Detection and identification of spotted fever group rickettsiae and Ehrlichiae in African ticks. Emerg Infect Dis 2001; 7: 1014-1017.
21. Psaroulaki A, Germanakis A, Gikas A, Scoulica E, Tselentis Y. Simultaneous detection of Rickettsia mongolotimonae in a patient and in a tick in Greece. J Clin Microbiol 2005; 43: 3558-3559.
22. Fournier PE, Tissot-Dupont H, Gallais H, Raoult DR. Rickettsia mongolotimonae: a rare pathogen in France. Emerg Infect Dis 2000; 6: 290-292.
23. Pretorius AM, Birtles RJ. Rickettsia mongolotimonae infection in South Africa. Emerg Infect Dis 2004; 10: 125-126.
24. de Sousa R, Duque L, Poças J et al. Portuguese patient infected with Rickettsia sibirica. Emerg Infect Dis 2008; 14: 529-531.
25. Aguirrebengoa K, Portillo A, Santibáñez S, Marín JJ, Montejo M, Oteo JA. Human Rickettsia sibirica mongolitimonae infection, Spain. Emerg Infect Dis 2008; 14: 528-529.
26. Levin ML, Killmaster L, Zemtsova G et al. Incongruent effects of two isolates of Rickettsia conorii on the survival of Rhipicephalus sanguineus ticks. Exp Appl Acarol 2009; 49: 347-359.
27. Neitz WO, Alexander RA, Mason JH. The transmission of tick-bite fever by the dog tick Rhipicephalus sanguineus. Onderstepoort J Vet Sci Anim Ind 1941; 16: 9-17.
28. Gubler DJ, Reiter P, Ebi KL, Yap W, Nasci R, Patz JA. Climate variability and change in the United States: potential impacts on vector- and rodent-borne diseases. Environ Health Perspect 2001; 109 (suppl 2): 223-233.
29. Stenos J, Graves SR, Unsworth NB. A highly sensitive and specific real-time PCR assay for the detection of spotted fever and typhus group rickettsiae. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2005; 73: 1083-1085.