Severe Tick Infestation in a Hare and Potential Risk for Transmitting Pathogens to Humans

Severe tick infestation was found in a hare in a suburban area of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China. We sampled ticks and identified them based on their morphologic characteristics. Three species, Ixodes sinensis, which is commonly found in China and can experimentally transmit Borrelia burgdorferi,...

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Autores principales: Zheng, Weiqing, Chen, Haiying, Liu, Xiaoqing, Guo, Xuejian, Fu, Renlong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Society for Parasitology 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279682/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22355211
http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2011.49.4.419
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author Zheng, Weiqing
Chen, Haiying
Liu, Xiaoqing
Guo, Xuejian
Fu, Renlong
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description Severe tick infestation was found in a hare in a suburban area of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China. We sampled ticks and identified them based on their morphologic characteristics. Three species, Ixodes sinensis, which is commonly found in China and can experimentally transmit Borrelia burgdorferi, Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides, and Haemaphysalis longicornis which can transmit Lyme disease were detected with an optical microscope and a stereomicroscope. Risk of spreading ticks from suburban to urban areas exists due to human transportation and travel between the infested and non-infested areas around Nanchang.
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spelling pubmed-32796822012-02-21 Severe Tick Infestation in a Hare and Potential Risk for Transmitting Pathogens to Humans Zheng, Weiqing Chen, Haiying Liu, Xiaoqing Guo, Xuejian Fu, Renlong Korean J Parasitol Case Report Severe tick infestation was found in a hare in a suburban area of Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, China. We sampled ticks and identified them based on their morphologic characteristics. Three species, Ixodes sinensis, which is commonly found in China and can experimentally transmit Borrelia burgdorferi, Rhipicephalus haemaphysaloides, and Haemaphysalis longicornis which can transmit Lyme disease were detected with an optical microscope and a stereomicroscope. Risk of spreading ticks from suburban to urban areas exists due to human transportation and travel between the infested and non-infested areas around Nanchang. The Korean Society for Parasitology 2011-12 2011-12-16 /pmc/articles/PMC3279682/ /pubmed/22355211 http://dx.doi.org/10.3347/kjp.2011.49.4.419 Text en © 2011, Korean Society for Parasitology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3279682/
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