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- Title
Prevalence and diversity of human pathogenic rickettsiae in urban versus rural habitats, Hungary.
- Authors
Szekeres, Sándor; Rigó, Krisztina; Jablonszky, Mónika; Majoros, Gábor; Földvári, Gábor; Docters van Leeuwen, Arieke; Sprong, Hein
- Abstract
Tick-borne rickettsioses belong to the important emerging infectious diseases worldwide. We investigated the potential human exposure to rickettsiae by determining their presence in questing ticks collected in an urban park of Budapest and a popular hunting and recreational forest area in southern Hungary. Differences were found in the infectious risk between the two habitats. Rickettsia monacensis and Rickettsia helvetica were identified with sequencing in questing Ixodes ricinus, the only ticks species collected in the city park. Female I. ricinus had a particularly high prevalence of R. helvetica (45 %). Tick community was more diverse in the rural habitat with Dermacentor reticulatus ticks having especially high percentage (58 %) of Rickettsia raoultii infection. We conclude that despite the distinct eco-epidemiological traits, the risk (hazard and exposure) of acquiring human pathogenic rickettsial infections in both the urban and the rural study sites exists.
- Subjects
BUDAPEST (Hungary); RICKETTSIAL diseases; COMMUNICABLE diseases; PATHOGENIC microorganisms; SEROLOGY
- Publication
Experimental & Applied Acarology, 2016, Vol 68, Issue 2, p223
- ISSN
0168-8162
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10493-015-9989-x