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20186465

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-8-3
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Ticks of the genus Dermacentor are important vectors of human and animal pathogens in North America. They also carry a variety of endosymbiotic (i.e. non-pathogenic) bacteria. The American dog tick, D. variabilis, is known to be infected with gammaproteobacteria of the genus Arsenophonus. However, there have been no previous reports of Arsenophonus-type bacteria in the Rocky Mountain wood tick, D. andersoni, a species that is sympatric with D. variabilis in the western parts of its distributional range. In this study, the presence of Arsenophonus-type bacteria was determined by PCR and DNA sequencing for 338 D. andersoni and 448 D. variabilis adults from western Canada. Fifty-one (15%) of the D. andersoni were found to be infected with Arsenophonus, whereas only a single D. variabilis was infected. The prevalence of Arsenophonus in D. andersoni varied among localities (0-27%). The 16S rDNA sequences of Arsenophonus in Canadian D. andersoni and D. variabilis were identical to one another, but the results of a phylogenetic analysis showed that they were genetically distinct from, and may represent a different species to, the Arsenophonus in D. variabilis and Amblyomma americanum in eastern USA.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1572-9702
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
52
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
85-91
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Detection of a new Arsenophonus-type bacterium in Canadian populations of the Rocky Mountain wood tick, Dermacentor andersoni.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biology, University of Saskatchewan, 112 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. shaun.dergousoff@usask.ca
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't