6 research outputs found
The new locality of Argas reflexus Fabricius, 1794 in Warsaw, Poland
The new locality of Argas reflexus in Warsaw, Poland is recorded. The ticks occur in the lof of apartment blocks, inhabited by pigeons. When the birds were removed by cleaning services, the ticks began to look for a new host and penetrate the flats. Some of the lodgers had been bitten by tick larvae and nymphs
Molecular evidence of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microti co-infections in Ixodes ricinus ticks in central-eastern region of Poland
The aim of the study was to elucidate the distribution of Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Babesia microti co-infection in Ixodes
ricinus populations within the central-eastern region of Poland. The prevalence of analysed tick-borne human pathogens in
single and polymicrobial infections in I. ricinus ticks were analysed using the conventional and nested PCR techniques. A total
number of 1,123 questing tick individuals (291 females, 267 males and 565 nymphs) were collected at different ecosystems
(municipal parks, suburban forests, and woodlands). In the presented study, 95 samples of ticks (8.5%) were infected with
A. phagocytophilum, 3.1% (n=35) with B. microti, whereas the co-existence status of these human pathogens was detected
in 1.8% (n=20) of all tested samples. It has been demonstrated that the prevalence of co-infection status was the highest
among females of I. ricinus (11 samples, 3.8%), whereas the lowest within tested nymphs (5 samples, 0.9%). Ticks collected
at city parks in Warsaw and suburban areas of this town characterized the highest prevalence of co-infections (3.3 and
4.8%, respectively). Furthermore, it was established that co-infection rates of ticks inhabiting woodlands within Kampinos
National Park and Nadbużański Landscape Park were similar and reached the levels of 1.4% (n=5) and 1.1% (n=4), respectively