Infection of hard ticks in the Caspian Sea littoral of Iran with Lyme borreliosis and relapsing fever borreliae |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Parasitology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran;2. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran;3. National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar Ahang, Hamadan, Iran;4. Department of Microbiology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran;5. Department of Parasitology, Zoonosis Research Center, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Amol, Mazandaran, Iran;1. Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia University, Urmia, West Azerbaijan, Iran;2. Department of Food Hygiene and Quality Control, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia University, Urmia, West Azerbaijan, Iran;3. Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran;1. Department of Pathobiology, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran;2. Department of Microbiology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran;3. National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar-Ahang, Hamadan, Iran;4. Department of clinical sciences, Faculty of veterinary medicine, Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch, Iran;5. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging infectious diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran;1. Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran;2. Department of Clinical Sciences, School of Veterinary Medicine, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran;1. Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran;2. National Reference Laboratory for Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Kabudar Ahang, Hamadan, Iran;3. Department of Microbiology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran;4. Food Hygiene and Public Health Department, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran;5. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran;6. Institute for Veterinary Medical Research, Centre for Agricultural Research, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary;7. Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Veterinary Medicine, Budapest, Hungary;1. Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran;2. Department of Pathobiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran;3. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran;4. National Reference Laboratory of Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar-Ahang, Hamadan, Iran;1. National Reference Laboratory of Plague, Tularemia and Q Fever, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Akanlu, Kabudar-Ahang, Hamadan, Iran;2. Urology and Nephrology Research Center, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran;3. Department of Communicable Diseases Control and Prevention, Health Center, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran;4. Department of Parasitology, School of Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical, Sciences, Khorramabad, Iran;5. Université Grenoble Alpes, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, TIMC-IMAG, Grenoble, France;6. Centre National de Référence Francisella tularensis, Laboratoire de Bactériologie, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France;7. Department of Microbiology, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran;8. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatics, Research Centre for Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases, Pasteur Institute of Iran, Tehran, Iran |
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| Abstract: | The Caspian Sea littoral of Iran is home to various hard tick species, including Ixodes ricinus, the notorious vector of Lyme borreliosis (LB) in Eurasia. Here, in this area, we examined I. ricinus and other hard ticks, along with common rodents and small mammals for LB and relapsing fever (RF) borreliae infection. Ticks were collected from various mammalian hosts, including sheep, goats, cattle, camels, horses, dogs, donkeys, rodents, and hedgehogs. Rodents and small mammals were live-captured from different habitats. A real-time PCR for 16S rRNA sequence revealed borrelial DNA in 71 out of 501 (≈14 %) specimens belonging to I. ricinus and Rhipicephalus ticks. None of the rodents and small mammals showed borrelial infection in the viscera. PCR amplification and sequencing of a 600-bp sequence of the flaB identified Borrelia bavariensis, Borrelia garinii, Borrelia afzelii, and Borrelia valaisiana, and the RF Borrelia, B. miyamotoi in I. ricinus ticks. The RF-like Borrelia in Rhipicephalus ticks shared the highest identity (98.97 %) with an isolate infecting Haemaphysalis megaspinosa ticks in Japan. Our phylogeny and BLAST analysis suggest the range extension of the European I. ricinus-associated borreliae into the north of Iran. |
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| Keywords: | Lyme borreliosis Relapsing fever Hard ticks |
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