| Literature DB >> 28981682 |
Ratree Takhampunya1, Heung-Chul Kim2, Sung-Tae Chong2, Achareeya Korkusol1, Bousaraporn Tippayachai1, Silas A Davidson1, Jeannine M Petersen3, Terry A Klein4.
Abstract
A total of 6,255 ticks belonging to three genera and six species (Haemaphysalis flava Neumann, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann, Haemaphysalis phasiana Saito, Ixodes nipponensis Kitaoka & Saito, Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, and Amblyomma testudinarium Koch) collected from May-August, 2013, at four southwestern provinces in the Republic of Korea (ROK) were submitted to the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences and assayed for selected tick-borne pathogens. One pool each of H. flava and H. phasiana was positive by PCR and sequencing for a Francisella-like endosymbiont, while all pools were negative for Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Entomological Society of America 2017. This work is written by US Government employees and is in the public domain in the US.Entities:
Keywords: Francisella tularensis endosymbiont; Haemaphysalis flava; Haemaphysalis phasiana; Korea; tick surveillance
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Year: 2017 PMID： 28981682 DOI： 10.1093/jme/tjx123
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Med Entomol ISSN： 0022-2585 Impact factor: 2.278