Northern white-breasted hedgehogs Erinaceus roumanicus as hosts for ticks infected with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Romania

Dumitrache, Mirabela Oana; Paştiu, Anamaria Ioana; Kalmár, Zsuzsa; Mircean, Viorica; Sándor, Attila D.; Gherman, Călin Mircea; Peștean, Cosmin; Mihalca, Andrei Daniel; Cozma, Vasile

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“…The severity of the disease depends upon the variant and the respective host' s susceptibility to infection. In contrast to A. marginale, A. phagocytophilum has a broad host range, including rodents, hedgehogs, birds, cats, deer, horses, cattle, dogs, sheep and humans (3,12,14). Anaplasma phagocytophilum was first identified as the aetiologic agent of tick-borne fever in sheep and other ruminants, a disease which impacts upon sheep production in Europe.…”

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The genus Anaplasma: new challenges after reclassification

Km¹,

J²,

Cabezas-Cruz³

2015

Rev. Sci. Tech. OIE

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The genus Anaplasma is one of four distinct genera in the family Anaplasmataceae, which are obligate intracellular pathogens vectored by ticks and found exclusively within parasitophorous vacuoles in the host cell cytoplasm. The 2001 reclassification of the order Rickettsiales expanded the genus Anaplasma, which previously contained pathogens that were host specific for ruminants (A. marginale, A. centrale and A. ovis), by adding A. phagocytophilum, a unification of three organisms previously classified as Ehrlichia (E. equi, E. phagocytophila and the unnamed agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis). Also included in the genus Anaplasma were A. bovis (formerly E. bovis), A. platys (formerly E. platys) and Aegyptianella pullorum. Despite the genomic relatedness of the regrouped organisms, many aspects of their biology are diverse, including their host specificity, host cell preferences, major surface proteins (MSPs) and tick vectors. This review focuses on the two most important pathogens: A. marginale, which causes bovine anaplasmosis, and A. phagocytophilum, the aetiologic agent of tick-borne fever in sheep and human granulocytic anaplasmosis, an emerging tick-borne disease of humans. For both pathogens, strain diversity is much greater than previously recognised. While MSPs were found to be useful in phylogenetic studies and strain identification, highly conserved MSPs were found to affect the specificity of serologic tests. Comparison of these two important pathogens highlights the challenges and insight derived from reclassification and molecular analysis, both of which have implications for the development and evaluation of diagnosis and control strategies.

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The genus Anaplasma: new challenges after reclassification

Km¹,

J²,

Cabezas-Cruz³

2015

Rev. Sci. Tech. OIE

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“…It has been found to maintain tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) during hibernation (Kožuch et al, 1967), and it has also been implicated as a potential reservoir of Lyme disease spirochetes (Skuballa et al, 2012). Furthermore, Anaplasma phagocytophilum has been recently detected in I. ricinus ticks removed from Northern white-breasted hedgehogs in Romania (Dumitrache et al, 2013). Nevertheless, despite the widespread distribution of E. roumanicus, data on its role as a host for ectoparasites in urban areas are remarkably scarce, particularly in comparison with information available for the much better-known European hedgehog, Erinaceus europaeus.…”

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Infestation of urban populations of the Northern white‐breasted hedgehog, Erinaceus roumanicus, by Ixodes spp. ticks in Poland

Dziemian

Michalik

Łacińska

et al. 2014

Medical Vet Entomology

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Infestation by the nest-dwelling Ixodes hexagonus Leach and the exophilic Ixodes ricinus (Linnaeus) (Ixodida: Ixodidae) on the Northern white-breasted hedgehog, Erinaceus roumanicus (Erinaceomorpha: Erinaceidae), was investigated during a 4-year study in residential areas of the city of Poznań, west-central Poland. Of 341 hedgehogs, 303 (88.9%) hosted 10 061 Ixodes spp. ticks encompassing all parasitic life stages (larvae, nymphs, females). Ixodes hexagonus accounted for 73% and I. ricinus for 27% of the collected ticks. Male hedgehogs carried significantly higher tick burdens than females. Analyses of seasonal prevalence and abundance of I. hexagonus revealed relatively stable levels of infestation of all parasitic stages, with a modest summer peak in tick abundance noted only on male hosts. By contrast, I. ricinus females and nymphs peaked in spring and declined steadily thereafter in summer and autumn, whereas the less abundant larvae peaked in summer. This is the first longterm study to evaluate the seasonal dynamics of both tick species on populations of wild hedgehogs inhabiting urban residential areas.

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“…Generally, wild-animals serve as a huge and often unknown reservoir hosts for zoonotic disease, included tick-borne infections [33]. Many wild-animals, such as lizards, wild boars, hedgehogs, and snakes have been identi ed as hosts of ticks [34,35,36]. In reality, the study of ticks in lizards is rare, especially in China.…”

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Three species (Hyalomma asiaticum, Rhipicephalus turanicus and H.sulcata)of ticks identified from lizards in arid desert regions of Xinjiang

Qi¹,

Li²,

Guo³

et al. 2020

Preprint

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Abstract Background Ticks are obligate hematophagous ectoparasites of vertebrate animals including human with wide distribution over the world, which are vectors of some human diseases. To date, the species discrimination and phylogenetic relationships among ticks on lizards in China are still unclear. The morphological method is not sufficient for identification of damaged, engorged or immature specimens by the loss of morphological criteria or by the lack of morphological criteria. So, Molecular technique was applied tothis study. Methods In this study, the 12S, 16S rDNA and COI fragments of 31 ticks collected from Eremias multiocellata-lizard from 4 arid desert regions of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous regions in China, were sequenced. 47 Chinese ticks from hedgehog and 1 tick from brushwood were included in this study as reference sample. To infer the phylogenetic relationships among them, 66 12S rDNA, 104 16S rDNA and 85 COI sequences of ticks retrieved from GenBank were also included. All samples identified with phylogenetic and network analyses. Results The three Bayesian analyses results (12S, 16S rDNA and COI fragments ) are consistent. They revealed that the 31 ticks from lizards belong to 3 genus and 3 species: 11 were identified as Hyalomma asiaticum, 3 as Rhipicephalus turanicus and 17 ticks belong to Haemaphysalis sulcata. Our results also indicated that the collected ticks from hedgehog were identified as Hyalomma asiaticum (38) and Rhipicephalus turanicus (9), the tick from brushwood was identified as Hyalomma asiaticum. All of these ticks collected from lizard were in small size ranged from 1 to 2 mm. Besides, some of these ticks share the same genotype with their counterparts in neighboring countries. The characteristics of ticks found in this study in Xinjiang may be closely related to the geographical environment. Conclusions Our study is the first attempt to investigate the ticks on lizards from the arid desert regions of Xinjiang in China, all of the discoveries on ticks in this study is closely related to the geographical environment in Xinjiang. which would provide more information to the control of ticks and tick-borne pathogens in the northern China.

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Northern white-breasted hedgehogs Erinaceus roumanicus as hosts for ticks infected with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato and Anaplasma phagocytophilum in Romania

Cited by 23 publications

References 14 publications

The genus Anaplasma: new challenges after reclassification

The genus Anaplasma: new challenges after reclassification

Infestation of urban populations of the Northern white‐breasted hedgehog, Erinaceus roumanicus, by Ixodes spp. ticks in Poland

Three species (Hyalomma asiaticum, Rhipicephalus turanicus and H.sulcata)of ticks identified from lizards in arid desert regions of Xinjiang

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