Volume 20, Number 8—August 2014
Dispatch
Role of Migratory Birds in Spreading Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever, Turkey
Hakan Leblebicioglu
, Cafer Eroglu, Kiraz Erciyas-Yavuz, Murat Hokelek, Mustafa Acici, and Hava Yilmaz
, Cafer Eroglu, Kiraz Erciyas-Yavuz, Murat Hokelek, Mustafa Acici, and Hava Yilmaz
Table
Ticks collected on migratory birds in a study of the role of migration in spreading Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever, Turkey
| Bird (species) | No. infested/no. captured (%) | Mean Intensity* | Tick characteristic† |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Species | Age, no. |
Sex, no. |
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| Larvae | Nymph | F | M | |||||
| Common blackbird (Turdus merula) | 17/514 (3.3) | 6.8 | Ixodes hexagonus | 3 | ||||
| I. ricinus | 6 | |||||||
| Ixodes spp. | 9 | 95 | ||||||
| Rhipicephalus bursa | 1 | |||||||
| Haemaphysalis spp. | 2 | |||||||
| Song thrush (T. philomelos) | 2/238 (0.8) | 1 | Ixodes spp. | 2 | ||||
| Thrush nightingale (Luscinia luscinia) | 1/150 (0.7) | 1 | Hyalomma sp. | 1 | ||||
| Common redstart (Phoenicurus phoenicurus) | 3/457 (0.7) | 1.7 | I. ricinus | 1 | ||||
| Ixodes sp. | 1 | |||||||
| Hyalomma spp. | 3 | |||||||
| European robin (Erithacus rubecula) | 16/3,106 (0.5) | 1.4 | I. hexagonus | 2 | ||||
| I. ricinus | 2 | 1 | ||||||
| Ixodes spp.‡ | 1 | 16 | ||||||
| European pied flycatcher (Ficedula hypoleuca) | 1/58 (1.7) | 11 | Hyalomma spp. | 11 | ||||
| Common chaffinch (Fringilla coelebs) | 2/194 (1.0) | 1 | I. hexagonus | 1 | ||||
| Ixodes sp. | 1 | |||||||
| Dunnock (Prunella modularis) | 1/41 (2.4) | 1 | Ixodes sp. | 1 | ||||
| Eurasian blackcap (Sylvia atricapilla) | 8/1,478 (0.5) | 1 | I. hexagonus | 1 | ||||
| I. ricinus | 1 | |||||||
| Ixodes spp. | 1 | 5 | ||||||
| Garden warbler (S. borin) | 2/1,183 (0.2) | 1 | Ixodes spp. | 2 | ||||
| Lesser whitethroat (S. curruca) | 1/154 (0.7) | 1 | Ixodes sp. | 1 | ||||
| Common chiffchaff (Phylloscopus collybita) | 1/1,104 (0.1) | 2 | Ixodes spp. | 2 | ||||
| Great reed warbler (Acrocephalus arundinaceus) | 3/30 (10.0) | 2.7 | Hyalomma spp.‡ | 6 | 2 | |||
| Savi’s warbler (Locustella luscinioides) | 2/20 (10.0) | 1 | I. ricinus | 1 | ||||
| Ixodes sp. | 1 | |||||||
| Cetti’s warbler (Cettia cetti) | 3/187 (1.6) | 1 | Ixodes spp. | 3 | ||||
| Eurasian blue tit (Cyanistes caeruleus) | 1/10 (10.0) | 1 | I. hexagonus | 1 | ||||
| Red-backed shrike (Lanius collurio) | 1/193 (0.5) | 1 | Hyalomma sp. | 1 | ||||
| Total | 65/9,117 (0.7) | 16 | 148 | 21 | 3 | |||
*Mean overall intensity of infestation per bird species.
†Blank cells indicate no data.
‡One tick was CCHFV-positive by PCR.
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