| Literature DB >> 27135624 |
Limei Luo1, Jimin Sun2, Jianbo Yan3, Chengwei Wang4, Zhentang Zhang5, Li Zhao1, Huiju Han1, Zhendong Tong3, Miaomiao Liu1, Yuyan Wu2, Hongling Wen1, Rong Zhang2, Zaifeng Xue5, Xifeng Sun1, Kefeng Li3, Dongqiang Ma5, Jianwei Liu1, Yuting Huang1, Ling Ye4, Wenqian Li1, Jianmin Jiang2, Xue-Jie Yu1,6.
Abstract
We collected 2460 Haemaphysalis longicornis ticks from vegetation in Jiaonan County, Shandong Province, in June of 2013 and Daishan County, Zhejiang Province, China, in May of 2015. The tick DNA was subsequently amplified with nested polymerase chain reaction using Ehrlichia common 16S rRNA gene primers and Ehrlichia ewingii species-specific groEL and gltA primers. We found 0.4% (3/780) of the ticks from Zhejiang Province contained Ehrlichia DNA that was different from all known Ehrlichia species, but most closely related to E. ewingii. We concluded that a novel Ehrlichia species exists in H. longicornis ticks in China.Entities:
Keywords: China; Ehrlichia; Haemaphysalis longicornis; Tick-borne diseases
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Year: 2016 PMID: 27135624 PMCID: PMC4884337 DOI: 10.1089/vbz.2015.1898
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis ISSN: 1530-3667 Impact factor: 2.133