ArticleScientific reports2022
Incidence of tick-borne spotted fever group Rickettsia species in rodents in two regions in Kazakhstan.
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- Wild mammals as hosts ofInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025Review
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- Spotted fever group rickettsiae in black rats, pets, and humans in Zungarococha community, A rural area in the surroundings of Iquitos, Peru.Ticks and tick-borne diseases · 2025Article
- Nationwide Survey of Vector-Borne Diseases in Rodents and Mites in Korea:Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2024Article
- Genetic diversity and prevalence of emerging Rickettsiales in Yunnan Province: a large-scale study.Infectious diseases of poverty · 2024Article
- Spotted fever diagnosis using molecular methods.Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical · 2024Review
- Commensal Rodents: Still a Current Threat.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Records on the distribution of Rickettsia spp. in their natural hosts in Central Asia are incomplete. Rodents and small mammals are potential natural reservoirs for Rickettsiae in their natural lifecycle. Studies about the maintenance of Rickettsia in wild animals are available for Western nations, but-to our knowledge-no studies and data are available in the Republic of Kazakhstan so far. The first case description of Rickettsioses in Kazakhstan was made in the 1950ies in the Almaty region and now Kyzylorda, East Kazakhstan, Pavlodar and North Kazakhstan are endemic areas. The existence of murine and endemic typhus was proven in arthropod vectors in the regions Kyzylorda and Almaty. Here we show for the first time investigations on tick-borne Rickettsia species detected by a pan-rickettsial citrate synthase gene (gltA) real-time PCR in ear lobes of small mammals (n = 624) in Kazakhstan. From all analysed small mammals 2.72% were positive for Rickettsia raoultii, R. slovaca or R. conorii. Sequencing of the rickettsial gene OmpAIV and the 23S-5S interspacer region revealed a similar heritage of identified Rickettsia species that was observed in ticks in previous studies from the region. In summary, this study proves that rodents in Kazakhstan serve as a natural reservoir of Rickettsia spp.
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