Volume 18, Number 7—July 2012
Dispatch
Role of Birds in Dispersal of Etiologic Agents of Tick-borne Zoonoses, Spain, 2009
Table 2
Anaplasma phagocytophilum, Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., and Rickettsia spp. detected in ticks removed from birds, Spain, 2009
Bacteria | Tick |
Bird species (no. specimens) | Gene targets | |
---|---|---|---|---|
Species | Stage | |||
A. phagocytophilum | Ixodes ricinus | 1 L | Turdus merula (1) | msp |
B. garinii | I. ricinus | 4 L, 2 N | T. merula (9) | flaB, 5–23S is |
3 L, 4 N | flaB or 5–23S is | |||
1 L | Erithacus rubecula (1) | flaB | ||
1 L | T. philomelos (1) | flaB, 5–23S is | ||
1 L | Troglodytes troglodytes (1) | flaB, 5–23S is | ||
I. frontalis | 1 F | T. philomelos (1) | flaB, 5–23S is | |
Ixodes spp. | 1 L | E. rubecula (1) | 5–23S is | |
Haemaphysalis punctata | 1 L | T. merula (1) | flaB, 5–23S is | |
B. valaisiana | Ixodes spp. | 1 L | T. merula (1) | flaB, 5–23S is |
I. ricinus | 1 L, 1 N | T. merula (3) | flaB, 5–23S is | |
2 L | flaB | |||
1 L, 1 N | T. philomelos (2) | flaB, 5–23S is | ||
1 L | E. rubecula (1) | flaB, 5–23S is | ||
1 L | Garrulus glandarius (1) | flaB | ||
B. turdi | I. frontalis | 1 F | T. merula (1) | flaB, 5–23S is |
R. monacensis | I. ricinus | 1 N | Sylvia atricapilla (1) | ompA |
R. helvetica | I. ricinus | 1 N | G. glandarius (1) | gltA |
R. sibirica sibirica | I. ricinus | 1 L | S. atricapilla (1) | ompA |
Rickettsia spp.† | I. ricinus | 1 N, 1 L | T. philomelos (1) | ompB or gltA |
I. ricinus | 4 L | E. rubecula (4) | ompB or gltA | |
2 N | T. merula (2) | gltA | ||
1 L | Tr. troglodytes (1) | gltA | ||
Candidatus Rickettsia vini | I. abroricola | 20 N | Cyanistes caeruleus (1) | ompA, ompB, gltA |
5 L | Parus major (1) | ompA, ompB, gltA | ||
I. ricinus | 2 L | E. rubecula (2) | ompA, ompB, gltA |
*L, larva; msp, p44 major surface protein gene; N, nymph; flaB, flagellin gene; 5S-23S is, 5S-23S rRNA intergenic spacer; ompB, 120-kDa genus common antigen gene; ompA, 190-kDa protein antigen gene; gltA, citrate synthase gene.
†Same identity with >1 validly published Rickettsia species.