| molecular survey of zoonotic agents in rodents and other small mammals in croatia. | croatia is a focus for many rodent-borne zoonosis. here, we report a survey of 242 rodents and small mammals, including 43 myodes glareolus, 131 apodemus flavicollis, 53 apodemus agrarius, three apodemus sylvaticus, six sorex araneus, four microtus arvalis, one microtus agrestis, and one muscardinus avellanarius, collected at eight sites in croatia over an 8-year period. multiplex masstag polymerase chain reaction (pcr) was used for detection of borrelia, rickettsia, bartonella, babesia, ehrlich ... | 2016 | 26711522 |
| presence of candidatus neoehrlichia mikurensis and babesia microti in rodents and two tick species (ixodes ricinus and ixodes trianguliceps) in slovakia. | rodents are important reservoir hosts of many tick-borne pathogens. their importance in the circulation of the emerging bacterial agent, candidatus neoehrlichia mikurensis and the intraerythrocytic protozoan parasite, babesia microti has been recently proposed. the aim of the present study was to identify the presence and genetic diversity of candidatus n. mikurensis and b. microti circulating in the natural foci among rodents and two species of ixodid ticks (ixodes ricinus and ixodes triangulic ... | 2016 | 26700195 |
| molecular examinations of babesia microti in rodents and rodent-attached ticks from urban and sylvatic habitats in germany. | small mammals serve as reservoir hosts for tick-borne pathogens, especially for those which are not transmitted transovarially in ticks - such as babesia microti. molecular investigations on the prevalence of b. microti in wild small mammals and on attached ticks from differently structured areas may provide information on the circulation of b. microti in different ecological niches. in 2012 and 2013, 622 rodents (396 myodes glareolus, 178 apodemus flavicollis, 36 apodemus sylvaticus, 4 apodemus ... | 2015 | 25922232 |
| prevalence and molecular characterizations of toxoplasma gondii and babesia microti from small mammals captured in gyeonggi and gangwon provinces, republic of korea. | a survey was conducted to determine the distribution and prevalence of toxoplasma gondii and babesia microti infections in small mammals captured in gyeonggi and gangwon provinces, republic of korea (rok). the serological prevalence of t. gondii (elisa) and b. microti (ifat) was 2.3% (15/667) and 2.1% (14/667), respectively. dna extracts from small mammal heart tissues were screened by pcr for t. gondii and b. microti targeting regions of the gra5 gene and the 18s rrna and β-tubulin genes, respe ... | 2014 | 25178555 |
| detection of kobe-type babesia microti associated with japanese human babesiosis in field rodents in central taiwan and southeastern mainland china. | field rodent surveys for babesia infection were performed from 2002 to 2005 in the vicinities of human babesiosis occurrences in taiwan and mainland china. babesia microti was identified by microscopical examination and/or pcr in 1 rattus coxinga and 1 crocidura horsfieldii in central taiwan and in 13 niviventer confucianus and 1 apodemus agrarius in zhejiang and fujian provinces of southeastern china. of 15 b. microti samples detected by pcr, all except 1 were shown to be the kobe-type, the aet ... | 2008 | 18413002 |