Volume 16, Number 3—March 2010
Perspective
Potential for Tick-borne Bartonelloses
Table 1
Ticks in which Bartonella spp. DNA has been found*
Tick genus and species | Prevalence of Bartonella spp. DNA in ticks, %/no. | Identified Bartonella spp. | Target gene | Reference |
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Amblyomma americanum | 0.43/466 individuals | B. tamiae–like | IGS | (3) |
Carios kelleyi | 3.2/31 individuals | Resembling B. henselae | IGS | (11) |
Dermacentor occidentalis | 8.3/12 pools | Bartonella spp. | gltA | (12) |
D. reticulatus | 21.4/84 individuals | B. henselae (99% homology) and B. quintana (90% homology) | groEL | (13) |
D. variabilis | 14.3/ 7 pools | Bartonella spp. | gltA | (12) |
Haemaphysalis flava | 2.7/74 pools | Bartonella spp. | 16S rRNA | (14) |
H. longicornis | 4.4/1,173 pools | Bartonella spp.; 1 pool harbored B. rattimassiliensis (99.2%), 1 pool harbored B. tribocorum (98.3%) | 16S rRNA | (14) |
H. longicornis | 36/150 groups (60 individual fed adults, 30 pools of 2 unfed adults, and 60 pools of 5 nymphs) | Bartonella spp. | gltA | (15) |
Ixodes nipponensis | 5.0/20 pools | Bartonella spp. | 16S rRNA | (14) |
I. pacificus | 19.2 of 151 individuals | B. henselae, B. quintana, B. washoensis, B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii, and a Bartonella cattle strain | gltA | (16) |
I. pacificus | 11.6/224 pools | Bartonella spp. | gltA | (12) |
I. persulcatus | 37.6/125 individuals | B. henselae (99% homology) and B. quintana (90% homology) | groEL | (13) |
I. persulcatus | 44/50 individuals in 2002 and 38/50 individuals in 2003 | B. henselae | groEL | (17) |
I. persulcatus | 33.3/3 pools | Bartonella spp. | 16S rRNA | (14) |
I. ricinus | 1.48/271 individuals | B. henselae | groEL, pap31, ftsZ | (18) |
I. ricinus | 4.9/102 individuals | B. henselae | gltA | (19) |
I. ricinus | 60/121 individuals | Bartonella spp | 16S rRNA | (20) |
I. ricinus | A pool/12 ticks | Bartonella spp | 16S rDNA | (21) |
I. ricinus | 9.8/92 individuals | Bartonella spp.; 1 adult harbored B. schoenbuchensis (96% homology) | gltA | (22) |
I. ricinus | 7.7/103 individuals | B. capreoli | ITS | (23) |
I. ricinus | 1.2/327 individuals | Bartonella spp | 16S rRNA | (24) |
I. ricinus | Resembling B. bacilliformis† | (25)† | ||
I. scapularis | 2.0/203 individuals | B. schoenbuchensis | gltA | (26) |
I. scapularis | 34.5/107 individuals | Unidentified Bartonella spp. | 16S rRNA | (27) |
I. scapularis | B. henselae | 16S rRNA | (28) | |
I. sinensis | 16.3/86 individuals | Bartonella spp. | gltA | (15) |
I. spp. | 42.3/26 pools | Bartonella spp. | 16S rRNA | (17) |
I. turdus | 11.1/9 pools | Bartonella spp.; 1 pool harbored B. doshiae (99.2% homology) | 16S rRNA | (14) |
Rhipicephalus sanguineus | 3.2/62 individuals | B. henselae | ribC | (29) |
Unidentified tick species | Bartonella sp. | IGS | (30) |
*IGS, intergenic spacer; gltA , citrate synthase gene; groEL, heat-shock protein gene; pap31, heme-binding protein gene; ftsZ , cell-division protein gene; ribC, riboflavin synthase gene.
†Bartonella spp. ascertained by isolation.
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