Affiliation:
1. Division of Infection and Immunology
2. Division of Medical Parasitology, Department of Hygiene and Medical Microbiology, Medical University of Vienna, Kinderspitalgasse 15, 1095 Vienna, Austria
Abstract
ABSTRACT
Babesiosis is a tick-transmitted disease of veterinary and medical importance. The first Austrian case of human babesiosis was recently recorded. In the current study, ticks at all life cycle stages (instars), including 853
Ixodes ricinus
and 11
Haemaphysalis concinna
ticks, from sampling sites throughout Austria were examined for the presence of
Babesia
spp. by using 18S rRNA gene PCR and sequencing, and the overall mean infection rate was 51.04%. The infection rates for sampling sites were highly variable, ranging from 0% to almost 100%. Different instars and different sexes were infected almost equally.
Babesia
isolates occurring in Austrian ticks were identified as
Babesia divergens
,
Babesia divergens
-like, and
Babesia
sp. strain DD by sequencing a fragment of the heat shock protein 70 gene and internal transcribed spacer regions 1 and 2. To our knowledge, this is the first investigation of
Babesia
spp. in Austrian ticks.
Publisher
American Society for Microbiology
Subject
Ecology,Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology,Food Science,Biotechnology
Cited by
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