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Search for tick-borne pathogens in the Svalbard archipelago and Jan Mayen

SYSNO ASEP	0450359
Document Type	J - Journal Article
R&D Document Type	Journal Article
Subsidiary J	Článek ve WOS
Title	Search for tick-borne pathogens in the Svalbard archipelago and Jan Mayen
Author(s)	Elsterová, Jana (BC-A)_ORCID Černý, Jiří (BC-A) Müllerová, Jana (BC-A) Šíma, Radek (BC-A)_{RID, ORCID} Coulson, S.J. (NO) Lorentzen, E. (NO) Strøm, H. (NO) Grubhoffer, Libor (BC-A)_{RID, ORCID}
Source Title	Polar Research. - : Norwegian Polar Institute - ISSN 0800-0395 Roč. 34, 20 October 2015 (2015), s. 27466
Number of pages	7 s.
Publication form	Print - P
Language	eng - English
Country	SE - Sweden
Keywords	tick ; Ixodes uriae ; tick-borne pathogens ; arboviruses ; Borrelia spirochetes ; Babesia apicomplexans
Subject RIV	EE - Microbiology, Virology
R&D Projects	EE2.3.30.0032 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS)
	GAP502/11/2116 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
	GAP302/12/2490 GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
	GP13-12816P GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF)
Institutional support	BC-A - RVO:60077344
UT WOS	000363404900001
DOI	10.3402/polar.v34.27466
Annotation	The tick species Ixodes uriae, parasitizing seabirds in the Arctic, may transmit many pathogens including various arboviruses, Borrelia spirochetes and Babesia apicomplexans. These pathogens may pose an important additional stress to seabirds, which are already stressed by environmental changes such as pollutants and decreased food availability. Here, we present the results of the first screening for arboviruses of the genera Flavivirus, Alphavirus, Orthobunyavirus, Phlebovirus and Orbivirus, as well as Borrelia spirochetes and Babesia apicomplexans from Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Using polymerase chain reaction technology with genus-specific primers, we tested 89 ticks collected on Jan Mayen, Bjornoya and Spitsbergen between 2008 and 2012. We did not detect any of the screened tick-borne pathogens. Nevertheless, these pathogens may be introduced to Svalbard and Jan Mayen by migratory birds in the near future. The increasing numbers of ticks appearing in the studied areas make this introduction even more likely. Such an introduction would have serious impact on seabird ecology as well as on human public health. Therefore, continuous careful surveillance and monitoring of possible tick-borne pathogen introductions is important.
Workplace	Biology Centre (since 2006)
Contact	Dana Hypšová, eje@eje.cz, Tel.: 387 775 214
Year of Publishing	2016

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