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Journal Article
Ticks and associated pathogens collected from cats in Sicily and Calabria (Italy)
2015
Overview
Background
Limited information is available about the species of ticks infesting the cat and the pathogens that they harbor. The aims of the present study were to identify the species of ticks removed from cats living in Sicily and Calabria (Italy) and to detect DNA of vector-borne pathogens in the same ticks.
Findings
Morphological identification of 132 adult ticks collected throughout the year from cats was carried out. Real-time PCRs for
Hepatozoon felis
, Piroplasmid,
Ehrlichia/Anaplasma
spp.,
Rickettsia
spp.,
Bartonella
spp.,
Mycoplasma
spp. and
Leishmania infantum
were performed from each individual tick.
Ticks belonging to
Rhipicephalus
(
R. sanguineus
sensu lato,
R. pusillus
) and
Ixodes
(
I. ricinus
,
I. ventalloi
) genera were identified.
Ixodes ventalloi
was the most frequently found tick species (47 %).
The positivity rate to at least one pathogen was 14.4 % (19/132 ticks).
Leishmania infantum
,
Rickettsia
spp. (
R. monacensis
and
R. helvetica
),
Bartonella
spp. (
B. clarridgeiae
), Piroplasmid (
Babesia vogeli
), and
Ehrlichia/Anaplasma
spp. (
E. canis
) DNAs were amplified in 8.3, 5.3, 1.5, 0.75 and 0.75 % of ticks, respectively.
Hepatozoon felis
,
Anaplasma
spp. and hemotropic
Mycoplasma
spp. DNAs were not detected. Four (21.1 %) out of nineteen positive ticks were co-infected.
Conclusions
This study provides novel data about ticks infesting cats and the DNA of pathogens that they harbor. In Southern Italy, anti-tick prophylaxis should be implemented throughout the year in cats without neglecting winter time.
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,Springer Nature B.V,BMC
Subject
/ Anaplasma - isolation & purification
/ Animals
/ Babesia - isolation & purification
/ Bartonella - isolation & purification
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ Cat
/ Cats
/ DNA
/ Ehrlichia - isolation & purification
/ Female
/ Italy
/ Ixodes
/ Leishmania infantum - genetics
/ Leishmania infantum - isolation & purification
/ Male
/ PCR
/ Rhipicephalus - classification
/ Rhipicephalus - microbiology
/ Rhipicephalus - parasitology
/ Rickettsia - isolation & purification
/ Sicily
/ Tick
/ Tick Infestations - epidemiology
/ Tick Infestations - microbiology
/ Tick Infestations - parasitology
/ Tick Infestations - veterinary
/ ticks
/ Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science
/ Virology
/ winter
