Molecular detection of Ehrlichia phagocytophila genogroup organisms in larvae of Neotrombicula autumnalis (Acari: Trombiculidae) captured in Spain. |
| |
| Authors: | P Fernández-Soto R Pérez-Sánchez A Encinas-Grandes |
| |
| Institution: | Departamento de Parasitología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain. |
| |
| Abstract: | Twenty unfed larvae of Neotrombicula autumnalis (Acari: Trombiculidae) collected on vegetation in the north of Spain were examined by polymerase chain reaction for Borrelia burgdorferi (s.l.). rickettsiae, and the Ehrlichia phagocytophila genogroup. At least 10% of the larvae were found to contain granulocytic ehrlichiae. Because the larvae were unfed, they would necessarily have inherited the bacteria through a transovarian transmission pathway. |
| |
| Keywords: | |
|
|
