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Babesia vesperuginis in insectivorous bats from China

BACKGROUND: To increase understanding of human bacterial and parasitic pathogens in bats, we investigated the prevalence of Babesia spp., Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma spp. and Coxiella burnetii in bats from China. METHODS: Bats were captured from Mengyin County, Shandong Province of China using nets....

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Autores principales: Han, Hui-Ju, Liu, Jian-Wei, Wen, Hong-Ling, Qin, Xiang-Rong, Zhao, Min, Wang, Li-Jun, Zhou, Chuan-Min, Qi, Rui, Yu, Hao, Yu, Xue-Jie
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5975495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29843764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2902-9
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author Han, Hui-Ju
Liu, Jian-Wei
Wen, Hong-Ling
Qin, Xiang-Rong
Zhao, Min
Wang, Li-Jun
Zhou, Chuan-Min
Qi, Rui
Yu, Hao
Yu, Xue-Jie
author_facet Han, Hui-Ju
Liu, Jian-Wei
Wen, Hong-Ling
Qin, Xiang-Rong
Zhao, Min
Wang, Li-Jun
Zhou, Chuan-Min
Qi, Rui
Yu, Hao
Yu, Xue-Jie
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description BACKGROUND: To increase understanding of human bacterial and parasitic pathogens in bats, we investigated the prevalence of Babesia spp., Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma spp. and Coxiella burnetii in bats from China. METHODS: Bats were captured from Mengyin County, Shandong Province of China using nets. DNA was extracted from the blood and spleen of bats for molecular detection of Babesia spp., Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma spp. and Coxiella burnetii with specific primers for each species. RESULTS: A total of 146 spleen samples and 107 blood samples of insectivorous bats, which belonged to 6 species within two families, were collected from Mengyin County, Shandong Province of China. We found that two Eptesicus serotinus (2/15, 13.3%) were positive for Babesia vesperuginis. We were unable to detect genomic sequences for Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma spp. and Coxiella burnetii. CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, our study showed for the first time the presence of Babesia vesperuginis in Eptesicus serotinus collected from China, suggesting that Babesia vesperuginis has a broad host species and geographical distribution.
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spelling pubmed-59754952018-05-31 Babesia vesperuginis in insectivorous bats from China Han, Hui-Ju Liu, Jian-Wei Wen, Hong-Ling Qin, Xiang-Rong Zhao, Min Wang, Li-Jun Zhou, Chuan-Min Qi, Rui Yu, Hao Yu, Xue-Jie Parasit Vectors Research BACKGROUND: To increase understanding of human bacterial and parasitic pathogens in bats, we investigated the prevalence of Babesia spp., Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma spp. and Coxiella burnetii in bats from China. METHODS: Bats were captured from Mengyin County, Shandong Province of China using nets. DNA was extracted from the blood and spleen of bats for molecular detection of Babesia spp., Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma spp. and Coxiella burnetii with specific primers for each species. RESULTS: A total of 146 spleen samples and 107 blood samples of insectivorous bats, which belonged to 6 species within two families, were collected from Mengyin County, Shandong Province of China. We found that two Eptesicus serotinus (2/15, 13.3%) were positive for Babesia vesperuginis. We were unable to detect genomic sequences for Rickettsia spp., Anaplasma spp. and Coxiella burnetii. CONCLUSIONS: To our knowledge, our study showed for the first time the presence of Babesia vesperuginis in Eptesicus serotinus collected from China, suggesting that Babesia vesperuginis has a broad host species and geographical distribution. BioMed Central 2018-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5975495/ /pubmed/29843764 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2902-9 Text en © The Author(s). 2018 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. 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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Han, Hui-Ju
Liu, Jian-Wei
Wen, Hong-Ling
Qin, Xiang-Rong
Zhao, Min
Wang, Li-Jun
Zhou, Chuan-Min
Qi, Rui
Yu, Hao
Yu, Xue-Jie
Babesia vesperuginis in insectivorous bats from China
title Babesia vesperuginis in insectivorous bats from China
title_full Babesia vesperuginis in insectivorous bats from China
title_fullStr Babesia vesperuginis in insectivorous bats from China
title_full_unstemmed Babesia vesperuginis in insectivorous bats from China
title_short Babesia vesperuginis in insectivorous bats from China
title_sort babesia vesperuginis in insectivorous bats from china
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5975495/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29843764
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13071-018-2902-9
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