A BIOLOGICAL VARIANT OF <i>ORNITHODOROS MOUBATA</i> MURRAY (IXODOIDEA: ARGASIDAE) FROM SOUTH AFRICA

Walton, G. A.

doi:10.1111/j.1365-3032.1959.tb00239.x

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“…had also been found on elephant, lion, hyaena, Ground pangolin ( Smutsia temminckii ), antbear ( Orycteropus afer) and domestic cattle in addition to warthogs and porcupines in Angola and Mozambique [ 104 , 105 , 106 ]. Walton [ 90 , 103 , 105 , 106 , 107 , 108 ] collected O. moubata s.l. ticks from different locations and domestic or wild habitats and compared the duration of their life cycles and longevity under laboratory conditions to identify a range of ‘biological forms’ that implied the taxon was not monotypic.…”

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Detection of African Swine Fever Virus in Ornithodoros Tick Species Associated with Indigenous and Extralimital Warthog Populations in South Africa

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Schade-Weskott

Rametse

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We investigated the possibility that sylvatic circulation of African swine fever virus (ASFV) in warthogs and Ornithodoros ticks had extended beyond the historically affected northern part of South Africa that was declared a controlled area in 1935 to prevent the spread of infection to the rest of the country. We recently reported finding antibody to the virus in extralimital warthogs in the south of the country, and now describe the detection of infected ticks outside the controlled area. A total of 5078 ticks was collected at 45 locations in 7/9 provinces during 2019–2021 and assayed as 711 pools for virus content by qPCR, while 221 pools were also analysed for tick phylogenetics. Viral nucleic acid was detected in 50 tick pools representing all four members of the Ornithodoros (Ornithodoros) moubata complex known to occur in South Africa: O. (O.) waterbergensis and O. (O.) phacochoerus species yielded ASFV genotypes XX, XXI, XXII at 4 locations and O. (O.) moubata yielded ASFV genotype I at two locations inside the controlled area. Outside the controlled area, O. (O.) moubata and O. (O.) compactus ticks yielded ASFV genotype I at 7 locations, while genotype III ASFV was identified in O. (O.) compactus ticks at a single location. Two of the three species of the O. (O.) savignyi complex ticks known to be present in the country, O. (O.) kalahariensis and O. (O.) noorsveldensis, were collected at single locations and found negative for virus. The only member of the Pavlovskyella subgenus of Ornithodoros ticks known to occur in South Africa, O. (P.) zumpti, was collected from warthog burrows for the first time, in Addo National Park in the Eastern Cape Province where ASFV had never been recorded, and it tested negative for the viral nucleic acid. While it is confirmed that there is sylvatic circulation of ASFV outside the controlled area in South Africa, there is a need for more extensive surveillance and for vector competence studies with various species of Ornithodoros ticks.

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