Ticks From Mink and Their Associated Microorganisms in Spain

IF 3 2区农林科学 Q2 INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases Pub Date : 2025-06-25 DOI:10.1155/tbed/9995586

Ana M. Palomar, Aránzazu Portillo, Asunción Gómez, Madis Põdra, Paula Santibáñez, Cristina Cervera-Acedo, Sonia Santibáñez, Elena López, Manena Fayos, José A. Oteo

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Wildlife is an important source of emerging zoonotic agents, including tick-borne ones. Wild carnivores such as mink are commonly parasitized by ticks, which are vectors and reservoirs of zoonotic diseases. Besides the importance of these arthropods as potential sources of diseases in mink, and the role of these mammals as reservoirs of infectious diseases, scarce studies of microorganisms of ticks from mink have been performed. In the present work, ticks collected from mink (European mink [Mustela lutreola] and American mink [Neogale vison]) from 2007 to 2021 in the North of Spain, and their associated microorganisms (bacteria, protozoan, and viruses), were studied. A total of 916 specimens (154 Ixodes acuminatus, 761 Ixodes hexagonus, and one Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato) were processed in 165 pools (31 I. acuminatus, 133 I. hexagonus, and one R. sanguineus s.l.). The microorganisms detected in I. acuminatus pools were Ehrlichia sp. (8), Neoehrlichia mikurensis (4), Coxiella spp. (23), Rickettsiella spp. (7), and Ixovirus spp. (3). In I. hexagonus pools, Coxiella spp. (131), Rickettsiella spp. (5), Hepatozoon martis (5), and Ixovirus spp. (6) were amplified. Infection with Coxiella spp. was found in the R. sanguineus s.l. specimen. Mink are involved in the epidemiology of tick-borne microorganisms, including important pathogens. The role of these tick species as vectors and mink as reservoirs of these microorganisms should be further investigated.

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西班牙水貂中的蜱虫及其相关微生物

野生动物是新出现的人畜共患病病原体的重要来源，包括蜱传病原体。野生食肉动物如水貂通常被蜱虫寄生，蜱虫是人畜共患疾病的媒介和宿主。除了这些节肢动物作为水貂潜在疾病来源的重要性，以及这些哺乳动物作为传染病宿主的作用外，对水貂蜱微生物的研究很少。在目前的工作中，研究了2007年至2021年在西班牙北部从水貂（欧洲水貂[Mustela lutreola]和美洲水貂[Neogale vison]）身上收集的蜱虫及其相关微生物（细菌、原生动物和病毒）。共采集了165个库（31个库，133个库，1个库）916份标本，其中尖锐伊蚊154份，六角伊蚊761份，血根头蚊1份)。库中检出的微生物有埃立克体（8种）、米库新埃立克体（4种）、柯谢氏体（23种）、立克次体（7种）和伊克斯病毒（3种）。在六角形鼠池中扩增出柯谢氏菌（131株）、立克次体（5株）、马肝虫（5株）和伊克斯病毒（6株）。在血鼠标本中发现了科希氏菌感染。水貂参与了蜱传微生物的流行病学研究，包括重要的病原体。应进一步调查这些蜱类作为媒介和水貂作为这些微生物宿主的作用。

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Transboundary and Emerging Diseases 农林科学-传染病学

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8.90

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9.30%

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350

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1 months

期刊介绍： Transboundary and Emerging Diseases brings together in one place the latest research on infectious diseases considered to hold the greatest economic threat to animals and humans worldwide. The journal provides a venue for global research on their diagnosis, prevention and management, and for papers on public health, pathogenesis, epidemiology, statistical modeling, diagnostics, biosecurity issues, genomics, vaccine development and rapid communication of new outbreaks. Papers should include timely research approaches using state-of-the-art technologies. The editors encourage papers adopting a science-based approach on socio-economic and environmental factors influencing the management of the bio-security threat posed by these diseases, including risk analysis and disease spread modeling. Preference will be given to communications focusing on novel science-based approaches to controlling transboundary and emerging diseases. The following topics are generally considered out-of-scope, but decisions are made on a case-by-case basis (for example, studies on cryptic wildlife populations, and those on potential species extinctions): Pathogen discovery: a common pathogen newly recognised in a specific country, or a new pathogen or genetic sequence for which there is little context about — or insights regarding — its emergence or spread. Prevalence estimation surveys and risk factor studies based on survey (rather than longitudinal) methodology, except when such studies are unique. Surveys of knowledge, attitudes and practices are within scope. Diagnostic test development if not accompanied by robust sensitivity and specificity estimation from field studies. Studies focused only on laboratory methods in which relevance to disease emergence and spread is not obvious or can not be inferred (“pure research” type studies). Narrative literature reviews which do not generate new knowledge. Systematic and scoping reviews, and meta-analyses are within scope.