Search for tick-borne pathogens in the Svalbard Archipelago and Jan Mayen
The tick species Ixodes uriae, parasitizing seabirds in the Arctic, may transmit many pathogens including various arboviruses, Borrelia spirochetes and Babesia apicomplexans. These pathogens may pose an important additional stress to seabirds, which are already stressed by environmental changes such...
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ftjpolarres:oai:journals.openacademia.net:article/3220 2024-06-23T07:50:38+00:00 Search for tick-borne pathogens in the Svalbard Archipelago and Jan Mayen Elsterová, Jana Černý, Jiří Müllerová, Jana Šíma, Radek Coulson, Stephen J. Lorentzen, Erlend Strøm, Hallvard Grubhoffer, Libor 2015-10-20 application/pdf text/html application/epub+zip application/xml https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3220 https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v34.27466 eng eng Norwegian Polar Institute https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3220/pdf_47 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3220/html_39 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3220/_39 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3220/xml_37 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3220/8243 https://polarresearch.net/index.php/polar/article/view/3220 doi:10.3402/polar.v34.27466 Polar Research; Vol 34 (2015) 1751-8369 Tick Ixodes uriae tick-borne pathogens arboviruses Borrelia spirochetes Babesia apicomplexans info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2015 ftjpolarres https://doi.org/10.3402/polar.v34.27466 2024-06-13T23:33:00Z The tick species Ixodes uriae, parasitizing seabirds in the Arctic, may transmit many pathogens including various arboviruses, Borrelia spirochetes and Babesia apicomplexans. These pathogens may pose an important additional stress to seabirds, which are already stressed by environmental changes such as pollutants and decreased food availability. Here, we present the results of the first screening for arboviruses of the genera Flavivirus, Alphavirus, Orthobunyavirus, Phlebovirus and Orbivirus, as well as Borrelia spirochetes and Babesia apicomplexans from Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Using polymerase chain reaction technology with genus-specific primers, we tested 89 ticks collected on Jan Mayen, Bjørnøya and Spitsbergen between 2008 and 2012. We did not detect any of the screened tick-borne pathogens. Nevertheless, these pathogens may be introduced to Svalbard and Jan Mayen by migratory birds in the near future. The increasing numbers of ticks appearing in the studied areas make this introduction even more likely. Such an introduction would have serious impact on seabird ecology as well as on human public health. Therefore, continuous careful surveillance and monitoring of possible tick-borne pathogen introductions is important.Keywords: Tick; Ixodes uriae; tick-borne pathogens; arboviruses; Borrelia spirochetes; Babesia apicomplexans.(Published: 20 October 2015)To access the supplementary material for this article, please see supplementary files in the column to the right (under Article Tools).Citation: Polar Research 2015, 34, 27466, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v34.27466 Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Bjørnøya Bjørnøya Jan Mayen Polar Research Svalbard Spitsbergen Polar Research Arctic Bjørnøya ENVELOPE(-67.250,-67.250,-68.151,-68.151) Jan Mayen Svalbard Svalbard ENVELOPE(20.000,20.000,78.000,78.000) Svalbard Archipelago Polar Research 34 1 27466 |
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The tick species Ixodes uriae, parasitizing seabirds in the Arctic, may transmit many pathogens including various arboviruses, Borrelia spirochetes and Babesia apicomplexans. These pathogens may pose an important additional stress to seabirds, which are already stressed by environmental changes such as pollutants and decreased food availability. Here, we present the results of the first screening for arboviruses of the genera Flavivirus, Alphavirus, Orthobunyavirus, Phlebovirus and Orbivirus, as well as Borrelia spirochetes and Babesia apicomplexans from Svalbard and Jan Mayen. Using polymerase chain reaction technology with genus-specific primers, we tested 89 ticks collected on Jan Mayen, Bjørnøya and Spitsbergen between 2008 and 2012. We did not detect any of the screened tick-borne pathogens. Nevertheless, these pathogens may be introduced to Svalbard and Jan Mayen by migratory birds in the near future. The increasing numbers of ticks appearing in the studied areas make this introduction even more likely. Such an introduction would have serious impact on seabird ecology as well as on human public health. Therefore, continuous careful surveillance and monitoring of possible tick-borne pathogen introductions is important.Keywords: Tick; Ixodes uriae; tick-borne pathogens; arboviruses; Borrelia spirochetes; Babesia apicomplexans.(Published: 20 October 2015)To access the supplementary material for this article, please see supplementary files in the column to the right (under Article Tools).Citation: Polar Research 2015, 34, 27466, http://dx.doi.org/10.3402/polar.v34.27466 |
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Search for tick-borne pathogens in the Svalbard Archipelago and Jan Mayen |
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