Volume 15, Number 12—December 2009
Research
Tick-borne Agents in Rodents, China, 2004–2006
Lin Zhan1, Wu-Chun Cao1
, Chen-Yi Chu, Bao-Gui Jiang, Fang Zhang, Wei Liu, J. Stephen Dumler, Xiao-Ming Wu, Shu-Qing Zuo, Pan-He Zhang, Hai-Nan Huang, Qiu-Min Zhao, Na Jia, Hong Yang, Jan H. Richardus, and J. Dik F. Habbema
, Chen-Yi Chu, Bao-Gui Jiang, Fang Zhang, Wei Liu, J. Stephen Dumler, Xiao-Ming Wu, Shu-Qing Zuo, Pan-He Zhang, Hai-Nan Huang, Qiu-Min Zhao, Na Jia, Hong Yang, Jan H. Richardus, and J. Dik F. HabbemaAppendix
Table 2. PCR results for 4 tick-borne agents in rodents, People’s Republic of China, 2004–2006*
| Species | No. (%) rodents tested | Study site, no. (%) rodents positive |
No. (%) rodents positive |
No. (%) co-infected | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heilongjiang Province | Jilin Province | IMAR | XJAR | Zhejiang Province | Guizhou Province | Anaplasma phagocytophilum | Borrelia burgdorferi | SFG rickettsiae | Francisella tularensis | ||||
| Apodemus agrarius | 142 (20.1) | 13 (20.3) | 75 (36.2) | 44 (29.6) | 0 | 10 (4.6) | 0 | 14 (9.9) | 4 (2.8) | 27 (19.0) | 14 (9.9) | 4 (2.8) | |
| A. peninsulae | 74 (10.4) | 13 (20.3) | 56 (27.1) | 5 (3.4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (5.4) | 9 (12.2) | 1 (1.4) | 7 (9.5) | 3 (4.1) | |
| A. sylvaticus | 21 (3.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 (9.7) | 0 | 2 (9.5) | 3 (14.3) | 7 (33.3) | 0 | 3 (14.3) | |
| Cricetulus barabensis | 11 (1.6) | 0 | 0 | 10 (6.8) | 0 | 1 (0.5) | 0 | 0 | 1 (9.1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| C. migratourius | 2 (0.3) | 0 | 1 (0.5) | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| C. triton | 5 (0.7) | 0 | 5 (2.4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (20.0) | 0 | 1 (20.0) | 1 (20.0) | |
| Cricetulus sp. | 39 (5.5) | 0 | 17 (8.3) | 0 | 5 (11.3) | 17 (7.9) | 0 | 2 (5.1) | 0 | 0 | 2 (5.1) | 0 | |
| Clethrionomys rufocanus | 65 (9.2) | 37 (57.8) | 23 (11.1) | 5 (3.4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 (4.6) | 6 (9.2) | 1 (1.5) | 2 (3.1) | 1 (1.5) | |
| Clethrionomys rutilus | 13 (1.8) | 0 | 0 | 13 (8.8) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (7.7) | 0 | 0 | |
| Meriones unguieulataus | 15 (2.1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 (34.1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (6.7) | 1 (6.7) | 0 | |
| Microtus maximowiczii | 35 (4.9) | 0 | 0 | 35 (23.7) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (2.9) | 0 | |
| Mus pahari | 7 (1.0) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 (25.0) | 0 | 0 | 1 (14.28) | 0 | 0 | |
| Mus musculus | 46 (6.5) | 0 | 4 (1.9) | 12 (8.1) | 22 (50.0) | 0 | 8 (28.6) | 0 | 2 (4.7) | 8 (18.6) | 0 | 1 (1.3) | |
| Niviventer confucianus | 115 (16.2) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 115 (53.2) | 0 | 6 (5.2) | 10 (8.7) | 8 (7.0) | 0 | 2 (1.7) | |
| N. coxingi | 4 (0.6) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 (1.8) | 0 | 1 (25) | 1 (25) | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| N. fulvescens | 2 (2.8) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 (0.9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Rattus losea | 32 (0.5) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 (13.9) | 2 (7.1) | 1 (3.1) | 3 (9.4) | 6 (18.8) | 0 | 1 (3.1) | |
| R. norvegicus | 47 (6.6) | 1 (1.6) | 13 (6.2) | 12 (8.1) | 0 | 12 (5.6) | 9 (32.2) | 4 (8.5) | 3 (6.4) | 2 (4.3) | 2 (4.3) | 1(2.1) | |
| Tamias sibiricu | 18 (2.5) | 0 | 11 (5.3) | 7 (4.7) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (5.6) | 2 (11.2) | 0 (0) | 5 (27.8) | 1 (5.6) | |
| NI | 6 (0.9) | 0 | 0 | 5 (3.4) | 0 | 1 (0.5) | 0 | 0 | 2 (33) | 1 (17) | 0 | 0 | |
| Others |
6 (0.9) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
2 (4.6) |
2 (0.9) |
2 (7.1) |
1 (10.0) |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
|
| Total | 705 (100.0) | 64 (100.0) | 205 (100.0) | 148 (100.0) | 44 (100.0) | 216 (100.0) | 28 (100.0) | 39 (5.5) | 47 (6.7) | 64 (9.1) | 35 (5.0) | 18 (2.6) | |
*SFG, spotted fever group; IMAR, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region; XJAR, Xinjiang Autonomous Region; NI, not identified.
1These authors contributed equally to this article.
