ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2010
Rickettsia felis infection in a common household insect pest, Liposcelis bostrychophila (Psocoptera: Liposcelidae).
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- Dynamics of Insect-Microbiome Interaction Influence Host and Microbial Symbiont.Frontiers in microbiology · 2020Review
- A Concise Review of the Epidemiology and Diagnostics of Rickettsioses: Rickettsia and Orientia spp.Journal of clinical microbiology · 2018Review
- Rickettsia felis: A Review of Transmission Mechanisms of an Emerging Pathogen.Tropical medicine and infectious disease · 2017Review
- New Insights into the Microbiota of Moth Pests.International journal of molecular sciences · 2017Review
- Effect of Rickettsia felis Strain Variation on Infection, Transmission, and Fitness in the Cat Flea (Siphonaptera: Pulicidae).Journal of medical entomology · 2017Article
- Booklice (Liposcelis spp.), Grain Mites (Acarus siro), and Flour Beetles (Tribolium spp.): 'Other Pests' Occasionally Found in Laboratory Animal Facilities.Journal of the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science : JAALAS · 2016Article
- The mitochondrial genome of booklouse, Liposcelis sculptilis (Psocoptera: Liposcelididae) and the evolutionary timescale of Liposcelis.Scientific reports · 2016Article
- Reply to Slesak et al.: So much about Rickettsia felis infection to be discovered.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Article
- Rickettsia species in fleas collected from small mammals in Slovakia.Parasitology research · 2015Article
- Maternal transmission, sex ratio distortion, and mitochondria.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2015Review
- Morphological and molecular characterization of a sexually reproducing colony of the booklouse Liposcelis bostrychophila (Psocodea: Liposcelididae) found in Arizona.Scientific reports · 2015Article
- Genomic diversification in strains of Rickettsia felis Isolated from different arthropods.Genome biology and evolution · 2014Article
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Abstract
Many species of Rickettsia are well-known mammalian pathogens transmitted by blood-feeding arthropods. However, molecular surveys are continually uncovering novel Rickettsia species, often in unexpected hosts, including many arthropods that do not feed on blood. This study reports a systematic molecular characterization of a Rickettsia infecting the psocid Liposcelis bostrychophila (Psocoptera: Liposcelidae), a common and cosmopolitan household pest. Surprisingly, the psocid Rickettsia is shown to be Rickettsia felis, a human pathogen transmitted by fleas that causes serious morbidity and occasional mortality. The plasmid from the psocid R. felis was sequenced and was found to be virtually identical to the one in R. felis from fleas. As Liposcelis insects are often intimately associated with humans and other vertebrates, it is speculated that they acquired R. felis from fleas. Whether the R. felis in psocids causes disease in vertebrates is not known and warrants further study.
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