English (United Kingdom)

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/featured_content/oa?rat=en

https://curated-unify.zendy.io/wp-json/zendy-region/v1/highlighted_journal/

Global: Zendy Plus annual

Presents the access of premium content as premium feature

Premium Content

Presents the keyphrase highlighting as premium feature

Keyphrase Highlighting

Presents the summarisation as premium feature

Summarisation

Insights

Presents the pdf analysis as premium feature

PDF Analysis

Presents the zaia usage as premium feature

ZAIA

Global: Zendy Tools annual

Global: Zendy Free Plan

Global: Zendy Tools monthly

Global: Zendy Plus monthly

Background   Rickettsia  spp. are human pathogens that cause a number of diseases and are transmitted by arthropods, such as ixodid ticks. Estonia is one of few regions where the distribution area of two medically important tick species,  Ixodes persulcatus  and  I. ricinus , overlaps. The nidicolous rodent-associated  Ixodes   trianguliceps  has also recently been shown to be present in Estonia. Although no data are available on human disease(s) caused by tick-borne  Rickettsia  spp. in Estonia, the presence of three  Rickettsia  species in non-nidicolous ticks has been previously reported. The aim of this study was to detect, identify and partially characterize  Rickettsia  species in nidicolous and non-nidicolous ticks attached to rodents in Estonia.    Results  Larvae and nymphs of  I.   ricinus  ( n  = 1004),  I .  persulcatus  ( n  = 75) and  I.   trianguliceps  ( n  = 117), all removed from rodents and shrews caught in different parts of Estonia, were studied for the presence of  Rickettsia  spp. by nested PCR. Ticks were collected from 314 small animals of five species [ Myodes glareolus  (bank voles),  Apodemus flavicollis  (yellow necked mice),  A.   agrarius  (striped field mice),  Microtus subterranius  (pine voles) and  Sorex araneus  (common shrews)]. Rickettsial DNA was detected in 8.7% (103/1186) of the studied ticks. In addition to identifying  R.   helvetica , which had been previously found in questing ticks, we report here the first time that the recently described  I.   trianguliceps- associated  Candidatus  Rickettsia uralica has been identified west of the Ural Mountains.

parasites and vectors

Rickettsia spp. in rodent-attached ticks in Estonia and first evidence of spotted fever group Rickettsia species Candidatus Rickettsia uralica in Europe