Evidence map›Paper›PMID 21732020›Full record

ArticleMicrobial ecology2011

Molecular detection of murine herpesvirus 68 in ticks feeding on free-living reptiles.

Martina Ficová, Tatiana Betáková, Peter Pančík, Radovan Václav, Pavol Prokop, Zuzana Halásová, Marcela Kúdelová

Abstract read
PubMed Publisher
In one paragraph

Article in Microbial ecology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 35% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. What do we know about the microbiome ofFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022
    Review
  2. Review
  3. Article
  4. Article
  5. Tick-Borne Transmission of Murine Gammaherpesvirus 68.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2017
    Article
  6. Tick-Borne Viruses and Biological Processes at the Tick-Host-Virus Interface.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2017
    Review
  7. Article
  8. Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Martina FicováInstitute of Virology, Slovak Academy of Science, 845 05 Bratislava, Slovak Republic.
Tatiana Betáková
Peter Pančík
Radovan Václav
Pavol Prokop
Zuzana Halásová
Marcela Kúdelová
Slovak Academy of Sciences · SKInstitute of Zoology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences · SK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The MHV-68 (designed as Murid herpesvirus 4 (MuHV 4) strain 68) isolated from two rodents, Myodes glareolus and Apodemus flavicollis, is considered as a natural pathogen of free-living murid rodents. Recently, the detection of MHV antibodies in the blood of animals living in the same biotope as MHV-infected mice has suggested that ticks may have a role in the transmission of this pathogen. Ixodes ricinus is one the most abundant tick species in Europe known to transmit multiple pathogens causing human and animal diseases. In this study, nymphs and larvae feeding on 116 individuals of a temperate lizard species-the green lizard Lacerta viridis captured in the Slovak Karst National Park, were examined for MHV-68. The specific sequence of virion glycoprotein 150 was amplified in DNA individually isolated from I. ricinus ticks using single-copy sensitive nested polymerase chain reaction. MHV-68 was detected in ten of 649 nymphs and in five of 150 larvae, respectively. We found that 9.6% of green lizards fed at least one MHV-68-infected immature tick. Occurrence of MHV-68 within all ticks tested was 1.8%. This study is first to show that immature I. ricinus ticks feeding on free-living lizards in a Central European region could be infected with gammaherpesvirus (MHV-68), naturally infecting free-living murid rodents. Our results provide evidence supporting the hypothesis that ticks may play a mediating role in circulation of MHV-68 in nature.

Indexed as

AnimalsDisease VectorsDNA, ViralHerpesviridae InfectionsIxodesLizardsRhadinovirusSlovakiaDNA, Viral

Identifiers

PMID21732020
OpenAlexW2159675064

What OpenQuestion holds

Textmetadata
Read underepoch 390

Registered trials

None linked

Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.