Detection of tick-borne bacteria and babesia with zoonotic potential in Argas (Carios) vespertilionis (Latreille, 1802) ticks from British bats

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Lv, Jizhou, Fernández de Marco, Maria del Mar, Goharriz, Hooman, Phipps, L. Paul, McElhinney, Lorraine M., Hernández-Triana, Luis M., Wu, Shaoqiang, Lin, Xiangmei, Fooks, Anthony R., Johnson, Nicholas
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
• Subjects: Article; Argas; Pipistrellus pipistrellus
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5789838/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29382871; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-20138-1

Ticks host a wide range of zoonotic pathogens and are a significant source of diseases that affect humans and livestock. However, little is known about the pathogens associated with bat ticks. We have collected ectoparasites from bat carcasses over a seven year period. Nucleic acids (DNA and RNA) we...