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Infection of Ixodes ricinus (Acari : Ixodidae) by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato in North Africa

Auteur(s)
Zhioua, Elyes
Bouattour, Ali
Hu, Chang Min
Gharbi, Mohamed
Aeschliman, Andre
Ginsberg, Howard S
Gern, Lise 
Institut de biologie 
Date de parution
1999
In
Journal of Medical Entomology
Vol.
2
No
36
De la page
216
A la page
218
Mots-clés
  • Ixodes ricinus
  • Borrelia burgdorferi
  • Borrelia lusitaniae
  • Tunisia
  • LYME-DISEASE
  • GENOMIC GROUPS
  • SEQUENCE-ANALYSIS
  • SP. NOV.
  • TICKS
  • SWITZERLAND
  • IDENTIFICATION
  • TRANSMISSION
  • SLOVENIA
  • STRICTO
  • Ixodes ricinus

  • Borrelia burgdorferi

  • Borrelia lusitaniae

  • Tunisia

  • LYME-DISEASE

  • GENOMIC GROUPS

  • SEQUENCE-ANALYSIS

  • SP. NOV.

  • TICKS

  • SWITZERLAND

  • IDENTIFICATION

  • TRANSMISSION

  • SLOVENIA

  • STRICTO

Résumé
Free-living adult Ixodes ricinus. were collected in Amdoun, situated in the Kroumiry mountains in northwestern Tunisia (North Africa). Using direct fluorescence antibody assay, the infection rate of field-collected I. ricinus bq Borrelia burgdorferi sensu late was 30.5% (n = 72). No difference in infection rate was observed between male and female ticks. Spirochetes that had been isolated from I. ricinus from Ain Drahim (Kroumiry Mountains) in 1988 were identified as Borrelia lusitaniae (formerly genospecies PotiB2). This is the first identification of a genospecies of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato from the continent of Africa.
Identifiants
https://libra.unine.ch/handle/123456789/11847
Type de publication
journal article
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