1. [Detection of Borrelia miyamotoi in ticks Ixodes persulcatus from Russia].
- Author
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Fomenko NV, Livanova NN, Borgoiakov VIu, Kozlova IV, Shulaĭkina IV, Pukhovskaia NM, Tokarevich KN, Livanov SG, Doroshchenko EK, and Ivanov LI
- Subjects
- Animals, Bacterial Proteins genetics, Borrelia genetics, Borrelia Infections epidemiology, Colony Count, Microbial, DNA, Bacterial genetics, DNA, Bacterial isolation & purification, Environmental Monitoring, Epidemiological Monitoring, Humans, Molecular Sequence Data, Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases genetics, Phylogeny, Population Density, Porins genetics, RNA, Bacterial genetics, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S genetics, Russia epidemiology, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Arachnid Vectors microbiology, Borrelia classification, Borrelia isolation & purification, Borrelia Infections microbiology, Ixodes microbiology
- Abstract
Unfed adult Ixodes persulcatus ticks from five regions of Russia were examined to analyze the distribution and diversity of Borrelia miyamotoi. DNA of B. miyamotoi was found in 1.8% of ticks from Leningrad Oblast, 2.9% from Sverdlovsk, 4.5% from Novosibirsk, 2.3% from Irkutsk Oblast, and 2.5% from Khabarovsk Krai. The molecular typing of the B. miyamotoi DNA was based on the partial sequencing of the 16S rRNA, p66, and glpQ genes. The only genetic variant of B. miyamotoi was detected in all samples of ticks collected from these five territories.
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- 2010