Prevalence of Anaplasma and Ehrlichia species in Ixodes persulcatus ticks and small mammals from different regions of the Asian part of Russia

2008 ◽  
Vol 298 ◽  
pp. 222-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera A. Rar ◽  
Natalya N. Livanova ◽  
Victor V. Panov ◽  
Irina V. Kozlova ◽  
Natalya M. Pukhovskaya ◽  
...  
2006 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 121-125
Author(s):  
Ya. P. Igolkina ◽  
N. V. Fomenko ◽  
N. N. Livanova ◽  
V. B. Astanin ◽  
L. A. Gosteeva ◽  
...  

We investigated ticks, human blood samples, specimens of tissue and blood from small mammals using nested PCR. We de- tected high prevalence Rickettsia tarasevichiae and Rickettsia sp. RpA4 in samples of ticks Ixodes persulcatus and Dermacentor re- ticulatus, correspondingly. We observed DNA of pathogenic Rickettsia helvetica and Rickettsia slovaca in I. persulcatus and Der- macentor marginatus and DNA of Rickettsia sibirica in human blood and in blood and liver samples of small mammals.


2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-91
Author(s):  
Vladimir Pavlovich Starikov ◽  
Antonina Dmitrievna Mayorova ◽  
Ekaterina Sergeevna Sarapultseva ◽  
Kirill Alexandrovich Bernikov ◽  
Nikolay Vladimirovich Nakonechny ◽  
...  

The paper contains information about ixodid mites of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug - Yugra, obtained during expedition work in 2006-2016. Ixodes persulcatus dominates in the structure of the population of ixodid ticks. The list of small mammals serving as feeders of ixodid ticks is indicated. The highest indices of occurrence and abundance of ixodid ticks were introduced for Myodes rutilus and Craseomys rufocanus (28,6 and 25,0%, 0,8 and 0,9 respectively). Researches in Nizhnevartovsk region in 2016 confirmed the opinion about total absence of ixodid mites on flooded part of the floodplain because of usual overflows. All ixodid ticks are registered in rodents and shrews on mainland part. The same feature in location of ixodid matis in 2013 was observed in surroundings of Khanty-Mansiysk city. The paper contains the information about distribution of ixodid ticks on feeders in Nizhnevartovsk region.


2016 ◽  
Vol 61 (5) ◽  
pp. 229-234 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. V. Mel’Nikova ◽  
R. V. Adel’Shin ◽  
V. M. Korzun ◽  
Yu. N. Trushina ◽  
E. I. Andaev

The Irkutsk region is the unique territory where all known subtypes of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) circulate. In the last years, the phenomenon of changes in TBEV subtypes (substitution of the Far-Eastern subtype by the Siberian one) was noted in some regions of the Russian Federation. The results of individual investigation of 11522 Ixodes persulcatus ticks and brain specimens from 81 small mammals collected in natural foci of the Irkutsk region during 2006-2014 are presented in the article. More than 60 TBEV strains have been isolated and studied by virological methods; E gene fragments (1193 b.p.) of 68 isolates have been typed. The majority of the strains (irrespective of subtype) were of high virulence for laboratory mice (LM) in case of both intracerebral and subcutaneous inoculation of virus. All isolates from warm-blooded small mammals and humans were of high virulence for LM, but placed in the same clusters of the phylogenetic tree with ticks collected in the same area. Tick-borne strains of different virulence also did not form separate clusters on the tree. Phylogenetic analysis showed that modern TBEV genotypic landscape of the studied territory is changing toward absolute predominance of the Siberian subtype (94.1%). This subtype is represented by two groups with prototype strains “Zausaev” and “Vasilchenko”. The “Vasilchenko” group of strains is spread on the whole territory under study; the strains of “Zausaev” group were isolated previously in the Irkutsk suburbs. The European subtype of TBEV circulates in natural foci of Pribaikalie permanently (at least 5% of the random sampling); the strains are of high virulence for LM. The Far-Eastern TBEV subtype was not found within the group of isolates collected in 20062014. The phylogenetic relationship of the strains under study had a higher correlation with the place of isolation than with the year or source.


Parasitology ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 138 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. A. RAR ◽  
T. I. EPIKHINA ◽  
N. N. LIVANOVA ◽  
V. V. PANOV

SUMMARYObjective.The aim of this work was to study the prevalence and genetic diversity ofBabesiainIxodes persulcatusticks and small mammals from Ural and Siberia in Russia.Methods.In total, 481 small mammals and 922 questing adultI. persulcatusfrom North Ural (Sverdlovsk region) and West Siberia (Novosibirsk region) were examined for the presence ofBabesiaby nested PCR based on the 18S rRNA gene.Results.Babesia microtiof the ‘Munich’-type was found in 36·2% of blood samples of the small mammals from the Sverdlovsk region andB. microtiof the ‘US’-type in 5·3% of the animals from the Novosibirsk region.BabesiaDNA was not detected in 133 analysedI. persulcatusfrom the Sverdlovsk region; however, it was found in 24 of 789 ticks from the Novosibirsk region. Three distinctBabesiaspecies were detected inI. persulcatus. B. microti‘US’-type was identified in 10 ticks,Babesiaclosely related toB. divergens/B. capreoliin 2 ticks, andBabesiaclosely related toB. venatorum(EU1) in 12 ticks.Conclusion.To our knowledge, this is the first detection ofBabesia sensu strictoinI. persulcatusticks and ofB. microtiinI. persulcatusin the Asian part of Russia.


2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 101499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Rar ◽  
Valeriy Yakimenko ◽  
Artem Tikunov ◽  
Marat Makenov ◽  
Tamara Epikhina ◽  
...  

2016 ◽  
Vol 115 (9) ◽  
pp. 3619-3629 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vera Rar ◽  
Valeriy Yakimenko ◽  
Marat Makenov ◽  
Artem Tikunov ◽  
Tamara Epikhina ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
Козлова ◽  
Irina Kozlova ◽  
Лисак ◽  
Oksana Lisak ◽  
Панов ◽  
...  

Tissue samples from 228 small mammals captured from 2013 to 2015 in four districts of Irkutsk region and in one district of Novosibirsk region were examined for the presence of Anaplasmataceae bacteria and Babesia parasites by nested PCR method with subsequent sequencing of positive samples. In Ekhirit-Bulagatskiy District of Irkutsk region, Babesia microti DNA was found in 10.9 % of small mammals, Anaplasma phagocytophilum DNA – in 7.3 %, and Ehrlichia muris DNA – in 1.8 %. Infected mammals were not found in the other three examined districts of Irkutsk region. In Novosibirsk region, B. microti DNA was found in 8.9 % of small rodents, A. phagocytophilum DNA – in 8.9 % of small mammals, and Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis DNA – in 8.9 % of small mammals. The identified infection agents corresponded to microorganism species and genetic variants previously found in Ixodes persulcatus ticks but not in ticks of other species.


2006 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 116-120
Author(s):  
V. A. Rar ◽  
N. N. Livanova ◽  
V. V. Panov ◽  
V. B. Astanin ◽  
S. G. Livanov ◽  
...  

Ehrlichia muris and Anaplasma phagocytophilum DNA were detected using nested PCR among Ixodes persulcatus collected in Novosibirsk, Sverdlovsk and Chelyabinsk regions and in blood samples of small mammals from Novosibirsk and Sverdlovsk re- gions. Two genetic variants of A. phagocytophilum were revealed in blood samples and ticks from Novosibirsk region.


Author(s):  
Боброва ◽  
Oksana Bobrova ◽  
Танцев ◽  
Aleksey Tantsev ◽  
Епихина ◽  
...  

Blood samples were taken from 541 small mammal captured in 2013–2015 in Znamensky district of Omsk region from Ixodes persulcatus and Ixodes trianguliceps sympatric area and examined for the Babesia spp. presence by nested PCR with subsequent sequencing of positive samples. Babesia microti DNA was found in 31,1 % of positive samples; a proportion of infected mammals varied from 5,3 % to 61,6 % in different sampling periods. B. microti DNA was found in samples from three prevailing Myodes species as well as from a root vole (Microtus oeconomus), field voles (Microtus argestis) and Siberian chipmunks (Tamias sibiricus). It was shown that identified B. microti samples belong to two genetic groups: B. microti ‘US’-type and B. microti ‘Munich’-type; notably that > 90 % infected mammals contained DNA of nonpathogenic for human B. microti ‘Munich’-type. We suppose that I. trianguliceps tick is the most probable vector of B. microti ‘Munich’-type.


2006 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 93-98
Author(s):  
N. V. Fomenko ◽  
Ye. V. Romanova ◽  
Yu. Yu. Karavaeva ◽  
V. V. Panov ◽  
N. Ya. Chernousova ◽  
...  

PCR assays were used to test sample from Ixodes persulcatus, blood and tissues of small mammals, human blood after tick bi- tes, as well as isolates from adult ticks. It was demonstrated the presence of two Borrelia species: B. garinii and B. afzelii. Mainly DNA B. garinii NT29 were determined.


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