| new zoonotic cases of onchocerca dewittei japonica (nematoda: onchocercidae) in honshu, japan. | zoonotic infections with onchocerca species are uncommon, and to date only 25 clinical cases have been reported worldwide. in japan, five previous zoonotic infections were concentrated in oita, kyushu (the southern island), with one previous case in hiroshima in the western part of honshu (the main island). the causative agent in japan was identified as onchocerca dewittei japonica uni, bain & takaoka, 2001 from japanese wild boars (sus scrofa leucomystax temminck, 1842). here we report two infe ... | 2015 | 25623081 |
| detection of rickettsia tamurae dna in ticks and wild boar (sus scrofa leucomystax) skins in shimane prefecture, japan. | we used 24 wild boars trapped from december 2009 to january 2010 and a further 65 from july 2010 to august 2010 in misato town, shimane prefecture, japan. we collected blood, spleens, skins and ticks from the wild boars, which were examined for rickettsial infections using polymerase chain reaction (pcr) primers for the genes rickettsial 17-kda antigen and citrate synthase (glta). we amplified rickettsia tamurae at-1 dna from the tick amblyomma testudinarium and from wild boar skins where ticks ... | 2013 | 23075922 |