Distribution and molecular characteristics of rickettsiae found in ticks across Central Mongolia

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• 作者：Bazartseren Boldbaatar ; Rui-Ruo Jiang ; Michael E. von Fricken…
• 关键词：Rickettsia ; Mongolia ; Ixodes persulcatus
• 刊名：Parasites & Vectors
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：December 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：10
• 期：1
• 全文大小：766KB
• 刊物主题：Parasitology; Entomology; Tropical Medicine; Infectious Diseases; Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science; Virology;
• 出版者：BioMed Central
• ISSN：1756-3305
• 卷排序：10

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BackgroundLittle is known regarding tick-borne diseases in Mongolia, despite having 26% of the population still living nomadic pastoral lifestyles. A total of 1497 adult unfed ticks: 261 Ixodes persulcatus, 795 Dermacentor nuttalli, and 441 Hyalomma asiaticum, were collected from three ecologically distinct regions in Central Mongolia. Tick pools (n = 299) containing ~5 ticks each, were tested for Rickettsia and Tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) using nested polymerase chain reaction, reverse transcription-PCR, and quantitative real-time RT-PCR.