ArticleApplied and environmental microbiology2014
Massive infection of seabird ticks with bacterial species related to Coxiella burnetii.
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- Changes in Bacterial Diversity, Composition and Interactions During the Development of the Seabird Tick Ornithodoros maritimus (Argasidae).Microbial ecology · 2021Article
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- Parasites of seabirds: A survey of effects and ecological implications.Advances in marine biology · 2019Review
- Inventory and update on argasid ticks and associated pathogens in Algeria.New microbes and new infections · 2018Review
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- Investigating the effects of age-related spatial structuring on the transmission of a tick-borne virus in a colonially breeding host.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
- The role of seabirds of the Iles Eparses as reservoirs and disseminators of parasites and pathogens.Acta oecologica (Montrouge, France) · 2016Article
- The Bacteriome of Bat Flies (Nycteribiidae) from the Malagasy Region: a Community Shaped by Host Ecology, Bacterial Transmission Mode, and Host-Vector Specificity.Applied and environmental microbiology · 2016Article
- The importance of multiparasitism: examining the consequences of co-infections for human and animal health.Parasites & vectors · 2015Review
- Distinctive Genome Reduction Rates Revealed by Genomic Analyses of Two Coxiella-Like Endosymbionts in Ticks.Genome biology and evolution · 2015Article
- The Recent Evolution of a Maternally-Inherited Endosymbiont of Ticks Led to the Emergence of the Q Fever Pathogen, Coxiella burnetii.PLoS pathogens · 2015Article
- Piroplasms of New Zealand seabirds.Parasitology research · 2014Article
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Abstract
Seabird ticks are known reservoirs of bacterial pathogens of medical importance; however, ticks parasitizing tropical seabirds have received less attention than their counterparts from temperate and subpolar regions. Recently, Rickettsia africae was described to infect seabird ticks of the western Indian Ocean and New Caledonia, constituting the only available data on bacterial pathogens associated with tropical seabird tick species. Here, we combined a pyrosequencing-based approach with a classical molecular analysis targeting bacteria of potential medical importance in order to describe the bacterial community in two tropical seabird ticks, Amblyomma loculosum and Carios (Ornithodoros) capensis. We also investigated the patterns of prevalence and host specificity within the biogeographical context of the western Indian Ocean islands. The bacterial community of the two tick species was characterized by a strong dominance of Coxiella and Rickettsia. Our data support a strict Coxiella-host tick specificity, a pattern resembling the one found for Rickettsia spp. in the same two seabird tick species. Both the high prevalence and stringent host tick specificity suggest that these bacteria may be tick symbionts with probable vertical transmission. Detailed studies of the pathogenicity of these bacteria will now be required to determine whether horizontal transmission can occur and to clarify their status as potential human pathogens. More generally, our results show that the combination of next generation sequencing with targeted detection/genotyping approaches proves to be efficient in poorly investigated fields where research can be considered to be starting from scratch.
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