Wild boar as a potential reservoir of zoonotic tick-borne pathogens

0553992 - BC 2022 RIV DE eng J - Journal Article
Hrazdilová, K. - Lesiczka, P. - Bardoň, J. - Vyroubalová, Š. - Šimek, B. - Žůrek, L. - Modrý, David
Wild boar as a potential reservoir of zoonotic tick-borne pathogens.
Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. Roč. 12, č. 1 (2021), č. článku 101558. ISSN 1877-959X. E-ISSN 1877-9603
R&D Projects: GA MZe(CZ) QK1920258
Institutional support: RVO:60077344
Keywords : anaplasma-phagocytophilum * sus-scrofa * game animals * snow cover * hard ticks * babesia * mortality * predation * hosts * populations * Wild boar * Ixodesricinus * Anaplasma phagocytophilum * Piroplasmids * Zoonosis
OECD category: Zoology
Impact factor: 3.817, year: 2021
Method of publishing: Limited access
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The wild boar (Sus scrofa) population has increased dramatically over the last decades throughout Europe and it has become a serious pest. In addition, the common habitat of wild boar and of the tick, Ixodes ricinus, indicates the potential of wild boar to play a role in epidemiology of epizootic and zoonotic tick-borne pathogens, including Anaplasma phagocytophilum. In Europe, epidemiological cycles and reservoirs of A. phagocytophilum, including its zoonotic haplotypes, are poorly understood. In this study, we focused on detection and further genetic characterization of A. phagocytophilum and piroplasmids in 550 wild boars from eleven districts of Moravia and Silesia in the Czech Republic.
Permanent Link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0328647