| 'candidatus rickettsia mendelii', a novel basal group rickettsia detected in ixodes ricinus ticks in the czech republic. | a novel rickettsial sequence in the citrate synthase glta gene indicating a novel rickettsia species has been detected in 7 out of 4524 ixodes ricinus ticks examined within several surveys performed in the czech republic from 2005 to 2009. this new candidatus rickettsia sp. sequence has been found in 2 nymphs feeding on wild birds (luscinia megarhynchos and erithacus rubecula), in a male tick from vegetation, and 4 ticks feeding on a dog (3 males, 1 female tick). portions of the ompa, ompb, sca4 ... | 2016 | 26873811 |
| prevalence of different rickettsia spp. in ixodes ricinus and dermacentor reticulatus ticks (acari: ixodidae) in north-eastern poland. | in two surveys conducted in april and may 2013, a total of 1148 unfed ticks belonging to two species, ixodes ricinus and dermacentor reticulatus, were collected by flagging lower vegetation in 15 different localities throughout the białowieża primeval forest (podlaskie voivodship; north-eastern poland) and in its buffer zone. in order to establish their infection rate with rickettsia spp. individual adult ticks and pooled nymphs were tested by real-time pcr targeting the glta gene. for the furth ... | 2017 | 29290582 |
| diversity of borrelia spirochetes and other zoonotic agents in ticks from kyiv, ukraine. | lyme borreliosis (lb) is caused by tick-borne spirochetes of the borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato complex. lb is the most prevalent vector-borne illness in ukraine, but current data on the prevalence of lb pathogens in their tick vector, ixodes ricinus, are lacking. i. ricinus ticks may also carry borrelia miyamotoi, an emerging relapsing fever group spirochete that has been implicated in human illness. despite its zoonotic potential, the prevalence of b. miyamotoi in ticks has not been examined ... | 2017 | 29258801 |