Prevalence of ‘Candidatus Rickettsia vini’ in Ixodes arboricola ticks in the North of Spain, 2011–2013

BACKGROUND: The prevalence of Rickettsia spp. in Ixodes arboricola ticks collected from birds in two locations in the North of Spain from 2011 to 2013 was studied. FINDINGS: The detection of the bacteria in 54 DNA extracts of I. arboricola was performed by PCR targeting an ompA fragment gene. The 94...

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Autores principales: Palomar, Ana M, Portillo, Aránzazu, Crespo, Ariñe, Santibáñez, Sonia, Mazuelas, David, Oteo, José A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4337319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889739
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0724-6
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author Palomar, Ana M
Portillo, Aránzazu
Crespo, Ariñe
Santibáñez, Sonia
Mazuelas, David
Oteo, José A
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Crespo, Ariñe
Santibáñez, Sonia
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description BACKGROUND: The prevalence of Rickettsia spp. in Ixodes arboricola ticks collected from birds in two locations in the North of Spain from 2011 to 2013 was studied. FINDINGS: The detection of the bacteria in 54 DNA extracts of I. arboricola was performed by PCR targeting an ompA fragment gene. The 94.4% of the samples yielded positive results and the nucleotide sequences were homologous (100% identity) to ‘Candidatus Rickettsia vini’. CONCLUSION: The high rate of infection suggests that ‘Ca. R. vini’ is a common endosymbiont of I. arboricola.
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spelling pubmed-43373192015-02-24 Prevalence of ‘Candidatus Rickettsia vini’ in Ixodes arboricola ticks in the North of Spain, 2011–2013 Palomar, Ana M Portillo, Aránzazu Crespo, Ariñe Santibáñez, Sonia Mazuelas, David Oteo, José A Parasit Vectors Short Report BACKGROUND: The prevalence of Rickettsia spp. in Ixodes arboricola ticks collected from birds in two locations in the North of Spain from 2011 to 2013 was studied. FINDINGS: The detection of the bacteria in 54 DNA extracts of I. arboricola was performed by PCR targeting an ompA fragment gene. The 94.4% of the samples yielded positive results and the nucleotide sequences were homologous (100% identity) to ‘Candidatus Rickettsia vini’. CONCLUSION: The high rate of infection suggests that ‘Ca. R. vini’ is a common endosymbiont of I. arboricola. BioMed Central 2015-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4337319/ /pubmed/25889739 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0724-6 Text en © Palomar et al.; licensee BioMed Central. 2015 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Mazuelas, David
Oteo, José A
Prevalence of ‘Candidatus Rickettsia vini’ in Ixodes arboricola ticks in the North of Spain, 2011–2013
title Prevalence of ‘Candidatus Rickettsia vini’ in Ixodes arboricola ticks in the North of Spain, 2011–2013
title_full Prevalence of ‘Candidatus Rickettsia vini’ in Ixodes arboricola ticks in the North of Spain, 2011–2013
title_fullStr Prevalence of ‘Candidatus Rickettsia vini’ in Ixodes arboricola ticks in the North of Spain, 2011–2013
title_full_unstemmed Prevalence of ‘Candidatus Rickettsia vini’ in Ixodes arboricola ticks in the North of Spain, 2011–2013
title_short Prevalence of ‘Candidatus Rickettsia vini’ in Ixodes arboricola ticks in the North of Spain, 2011–2013
title_sort prevalence of ‘candidatus rickettsia vini’ in ixodes arboricola ticks in the north of spain, 2011–2013
topic Short Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4337319/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25889739
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-015-0724-6
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