The first detection of species of Babesia Starcovici, 1893 in moose, Alces alces (Linnaeus), in Norway

Title:

The first detection of species of Babesia Starcovici, 1893 in moose, Alces alces (Linnaeus), in Norway

Creator:

Pūraitė, Irma, Rosef, Olav, Radzijevskaja, Jana, Lipatova, Indrė, and Paulauskas, Algimantas

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:c28069e0-c1e8-49a6-b9f4-83b0c3bf0eba
uuid:c28069e0-c1e8-49a6-b9f4-83b0c3bf0eba
issn:1803-6465
doi:10.14411/fp.2016.009

Subject:

zoonózy, parazitické organismy, zoonoses, parasitic organisms, Norsko, Norway, Babesia capreoli, Babesia odocoilei-like, 18S rRNA gene, Ixodes ricinus, 2, and 59

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model:article and TEXT

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print, počítač, and online zdroj

Description:

Babesiosis is an emerging zoonotic disease and various wildlife species are reservoir hosts for zoonotic species of Babesia Starcovici, 1893. The objective of the present study was to investigate the presence and prevalence of Babesia spp. in moose Alces alces (Linnaeus) in two regions of Norway. A total of 99 spleen samples were collected from animals of various ages from an area with the occurrence of the tick Ixodes ricinus (Linnaeus, 1758), and from an area where the ticks are known to be absent. Infection was detected by the amplification of different regions of the 18S rRNA gene by using two different PCR primer sets specific of Babesia. Babesia spp. were found in the spleen samples of four moose. All Babesia-infected animals were from an area where ticks occur, with an infection rate of 6% (4 of 70). Babesia-positive samples were obtained from a five-month old moose calf and three adults. Two Babesia species, Babesia capreoli (Enigk et Friedhoff, 1962) and a B. odocoilei-like, were identified. Co-infection with Anaplasma phagocytophilum was obtained in two animals. This is the first report of the occurrence of B. capreoli and B. odocoilei-like species in moose., Irma Pūraitė, Olav Rosef, Jana Radzijevskaja, Indrė Lipatova, Algimantas Paulauskas., and Obsahuje bibliografii

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

1-5

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 2016 Volume:63 | Number:1

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