Real-time PCR detection and phylogenetic relationships of Neorickettsia spp. in digeneans from Egypt, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam and the United States
Stephen E. Greiman,Jefferson A. Vaughan,Rasha Elmahy,Poom Adisakwattana,Nguyen Van Ha,Thomas J. Fayton,Amal I. Khalil,Vasyl V. Tkach +7 more
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For the first time detected Neorickettsia in a digenean from Egypt, the African continent as a whole, the Philippines, Thailand and Vietnam based on PCR and sequencing evidence, these findings suggest that further surveys from theAfrican continent, SE Asia, and island countries are likely to reveal new NeorICKettsia lineages as well as new digenea host associations.About:
This article is published in Parasitology International.The article was published on 2017-02-01 and is currently open access. It has received 12 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Neorickettsia & Anaplasmataceae.read more
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Transcriptomic responses of Biomphalaria pfeifferi to Schistosoma mansoni: Investigation of a neglected African snail that supports more S. mansoni transmission than any other snail species
TL;DR: This study provides for the first time a large sequence data set to help in interpreting the important vector role of the neglected snail B. pfeifferi in transmission of S. mansoni, including with an emphasis on more natural, field-derived specimens.
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An overview of rickettsiae in Southeast Asia: Vector-animal-human interface.
TL;DR: This review summarizes the infections of rickettsiae, including the newly discovered regional species Rickettsia thailandii, and other novel genotypes in vectors, humans and animals in Southeast Asia.
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Metagenomic shotgun sequencing reveals host species as an important driver of virome composition in mosquitoes
Panpim Thongsripong,James Angus Chandler,Pattamaporn Kittayapong,Bruce A. Wilcox,Durrell D. Kapan,Shannon N. Bennett +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the relative importance of host species and habitat in structuring virus communities was investigated, and the authors found that the pattern of virus presence was defined primarily by host species rather than by geographic locations or habitats.
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Isolation and Molecular Analysis of a Novel Neorickettsia Species That Causes Potomac Horse Fever.
Omid Teymournejad,Mingqun Lin,Hannah Bekebrede,Ahmed Kamr,Ramiro E. Toribio,Luis G. Arroyo,John D. Baird,Yasuko Rikihisa +7 more
TL;DR: The cell culture isolation of a new Neorickettsia species found in two locations in eastern Ontario, Canada, in 2016 and 2017 had the characteristic intramolecular repeats within strain-specific antigen 3 (Ssa3), which were found in all sequenced Ssa3s of N. risticii strains.
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Assessing bat droppings and predatory bird pellets for vector-borne bacteria: molecular evidence of bat-associated Neorickettsia sp. in Europe.
Sándor Hornok,Krisztina Szőke,Péter Estók,Aleksandra I. Krawczyk,Anne-Jifke Haarsma,Dávid Kováts,Sándor Boldogh,Pál Morandini,Sándor Szekeres,Nóra Takács,Jenő Kontschán,Marina L. Meli,Isabel G. Fernández de Mera,José de la Fuente,José de la Fuente,Miklós Gyuranecz,Kinga M. Sulyok,Beatrice Weibel,Enikő Gönczi,Arnout de Bruin,Hein Sprong,Regina Hofmann-Lehmann +21 more
TL;DR: Bats were shown to pass rickettsia and haemoplasma DNA in their faeces, and testing of bird pellets may provide an alternative approach to trapping for assessing the local occurrence of vector-borne bacteria in small mammals.
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