An overview of rickettsiae in Southeast Asia: Vector-animal-human interface

VL Low, TK Tan, JJ Khoo, FS Lim, S AbuBakar - Acta Tropica, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Rickettsioses are emerging, and re-emerging diseases caused by obligate intracellular
arthropod-borne bacteria that infect humans and animals worldwide. Various rickettsiae …

Molecular detection of blood-borne agents in vampire bats from Brazil, with the first molecular evidence of Neorickettsia sp. in Desmodus rotundus and Diphylla …

VVC de Mello, AJV Placa, DAB Lee, EO Franco, L Lima… - Acta Tropica, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Bats (Mammalia, Chiroptera) represent the second largest group of mammals. Due
to their ability to fly and adapt and colonize different niches, bats act as reservoirs of several …

Metagenomic shotgun sequencing reveals host species as an important driver of virome composition in mosquitoes

P Thongsripong, JA Chandler, P Kittayapong… - Scientific Reports, 2021‏ - nature.com
High-throughput nucleic acid sequencing has greatly accelerated the discovery of viruses in
the environment. Mosquitoes, because of their public health importance, are among those …

Molecular Survey of Anaplasmataceae Agents and Coxiellaceae in Non-Hematophagous Bats and Associated Ectoparasites from Brazil

P Ikeda, JM Torres, AJV Placa, VVC Mello… - Parasitologia, 2021‏ - mdpi.com
The Anaplasmataceae family (order Rickettsiales) encompasses obligately intracellular
bacteria of the genera Anaplasma, Ehrlichia, and Neorickettsia. Together with Coxiella …

Transcriptomic responses of Biomphalaria pfeifferi to Schistosoma mansoni: Investigation of a neglected African snail that supports more S. mansoni transmission …

SK Buddenborg, L Bu, SM Zhang… - PLoS neglected …, 2017‏ - journals.plos.org
Background Biomphalaria pfeifferi is highly compatible with the widespread human-infecting
blood fluke Schistosoma mansoni and transmits more cases of this parasite to people than …

Isolation and Molecular Analysis of a Novel Neorickettsia Species That Causes Potomac Horse Fever

O Teymournejad, M Lin, H Bekebrede, A Kamr… - MBio, 2020‏ - journals.asm.org
Potomac horse fever (PHF), a severe and frequently fatal febrile diarrheal disease, has been
known to be caused only by Neorickettsia risticii, an endosymbiont of digenean trematodes …

Assessing bat drop**s and predatory bird pellets for vector-borne bacteria: molecular evidence of bat-associated Neorickettsia sp. in Europe

S Hornok, K Szőke, P Estók, A Krawczyk… - Antonie Van …, 2018‏ - Springer
In Europe, several species of bats, owls and kestrels exemplify highly urbanised, flying
vertebrates, which may get close to humans or domestic animals. Bat drop**s and bird …

Molecular and morphological characterization of the cercariae of Lecithodendrium linstowi (Dollfus, 1931), a trematode of bats, and incrimination of the first …

EE Enabulele, SP Lawton, AJ Walker, RS Kirk - Parasitology, 2018‏ - cambridge.org
Lecithodendrium linstowi is one of the most prevalent and abundant trematodes of bats, but
the larval stages and intermediate hosts have not been identified. We present the first …

[PDF][PDF] Bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East. Part 16. Review of the distribution and taxonomy of bats in Egypt

P Benda, M Ševčík - Acta Soc Zool Bohem, 2020‏ - researchgate.net
A comprehensive list of bat records available from Egypt was compiled from the literature
(453 published and unpublished sources), supplemented by few records based on …

Nanophyetus salmincola, vector of the salmon poisoning disease agent Neorickettsia helminthoeca, harbors a second pathogenic Neorickettsia species

SE Greiman, ML Kent, J Betts, D Cochell, T Sigler… - Veterinary …, 2016‏ - Elsevier
The trematode Nanophyetus salmincola is known as the carrier of Neorickettsia
helminthoeca, an obligate intracellular endosymbiotic bacterium that causes salmon …