| survey on tick-borne pathogens in thoroughbred horses in the hidaka district, hokkaido, japan. | a total of 87 thoroughbred horses and 10 ixodid ticks from a ranch in hidaka district, hokkaido were tested for tick-borne diseases. using the indirect fluorescent antibody (ifa) method, 3.4, 92.0 and 97.7% of the horses showed antibody titers of ≥ 80 against anaplasma phagocytophilum, rickettsia helvetica, and borrelia garinii, respectively. this is the first report of infection with the 3 pathogens in horses in japan. using pcr, dnas from the peripheral blood of all horses were found negative ... | 2013 | 22878540 |
| detection of anaplasma bovis and anaplasma phagocytophilum dna from haemaphysalis megaspinosa in hokkaido, japan. | dna from 101 ticks, including haemaphysalis megaspinosa, haemaphysalis douglasi, haemaphysalis flava, ixodes ovatus and ixodes persulcatus, collected by flagging in a pasture in hidaka district (hokkaido, japan) was examined for infection with anaplasma bovis and a. phagocytophilum by species-specific nested pcr. of the 48 h. megaspinosa nymphs, examined, 1 (2.1%) and 6 (12.5%) were positive for a. bovis and a. phagocytophilum, respectively. one of the 6 positive nymphs was dual positive for bot ... | 2010 | 19897306 |