Volume 13, Number 8—August 2007
Dispatch
Babesia sp. EU1 from Roe Deer and Transmission within Ixodes ricinus
Sarah Bonnet*
, Maggy Jouglin*, Monique L’Hostis†, and Alain Chauvin†
, Maggy Jouglin*, Monique L’Hostis†, and Alain Chauvin†Table 2
PCR detection of Babesia sp. EU1 in blood samples from roe deer and in Ixodes ricinus larvae hatched from engorged females collected from roe deer*
| Roe deer Identification | Primer BAB |
Primer EU1 |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cultures | Cultures | Larvae | ||
| C105 | + | + | ||
| C107 | + | + | L107.1 (+) | |
| L107.2 (–) | ||||
| C109 | + | + | L109 (+) | |
| C110 | + | + | L110.2 (–) | |
| C112 | + | + | L112.1 (–) | |
| L112.2 (–) | ||||
| C115 | + | – | ||
| C117 | + | – | ||
| C123 | + | – | ||
| C128 | + | – | L128.3(+) | |
| C129 | + | + | ||
| C139 | + | + | ||
| C151 | + | + | L151 (+) | |
| C156 | + | + | ||
| C162 | + | + | ||
| C163 | + | + | ||
| C164 | + | – | L164 (–) | |
| C167 | + | + | ||
| C171 | + | + | L171.1 (–) | |
| C172 | + | – | ||
| C176 | + | – | L176.7 (–) | |
| C177 | + | – | L177.1 (–) | |
| L177.2 (–) | ||||
| L177.3 (+) | ||||
| C179 | + | – | L179.1 (+) | |
| C180 | + | + | ||
| C185 | + | – | ||
| C188 | + | – | ||
| C193 | + | – | ||
| C169 | + | + | ||
| C189 | + | + | ||
| C157 | + | + | ||
| Total positive (%) | 29 | 17 (58.62) | 6/15 (40) | |
*+, positive amplification of a product of the expected size; –, no amplification.
