Ectotherm vertebrates as a new potential reservoir of murid gammaherpesvirus 4

Kabát, Peter; Hricková, Natália; Ivančová, Miroslava; Jablonski, Daniel; Briestenská, Katarína; Bohuš, Mirko; Krajanová, Viktória; Mistríková, J

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“…Recently, interest for Murid gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV-68) has increased. Antibodies anti-MHV 68 and the DNA of the ORF50 of the MHV-68 virus were detected in domestic and wild mammals, including bats, but also in humans in Europe, Asia, and South America (Wágnerová et al 2015 ; Briestenská et al 2018 ; Janíková et al 2020 ; Kabát et al 2022 ). The MHV-68, a prototype strain of murid herpesvirus 4 (murid gammaherpesvirus 4, MuGHV4) from the genus Rhadinovirus (Herpesviridae) is closely related to the human oncogenic viruses: Epstein-Barr virus (human gammaherpesvirus 4, HuGHV4) from the genus Lymphocryptovirus and Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated virus (human gammaherpesvirus 8, HuGHV8) from the genus Rhadinovirus (Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated virus, the human gamma herpesvirus 8, HuGHV8), were first described by Dong et al ( 2017 ) and Mistríková and Briestenská ( 2020 ).…”

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First records of Secretargas transgariepinus (Argasidae) in Libya and Jordan: corrections of collection records and detection of microorganisms

Ševčík,

Špitalská,

Maliterná

et al. 2024

Parasitol Res

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The primarily bat-associated argasid tick, Secretargas transgariepinus (White, 1846), is a member of the Afrotropical and southern Palaearctic fauna. Probably because of its secretive life style, little is known about this species and records of its collection are scant. Based on morphological revisions of the available specimens, we report new Middle Eastern records for this tick species that had been misidentified as other bat-associated argasid taxa. These specimens are larvae from three localities, and represent the first records of S. transgariepinus from two countries: one larva from Sabratha (Libya) was collected from an unidentified bat species (possibly Eptesicus isabellinus), seven larvae from Azraq-Shishan (Jordan), and 78 larvae from Shamwari (Jordan) were all collected from Otonycteris hemprichii. Twenty larvae from Shamwari were also tested for the presence of both, viral or bacterial microorganisms by PCR. Three ticks were found to be infected with the Murid gammaherpesvirus 68 (MHV-68), one with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, and four with a Rickettsia sp. closely related to Rickettsia slovaca. The findings represent a first evidence for the occurrence of these possible pathogens in S. transgariepinus.

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First records of Secretargas transgariepinus (Argasidae) in Libya and Jordan: corrections of collection records and detection of microorganisms

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“…A total of 19 females, collected from one site in Ghiza, were used to test if they could transmit Keterah virus (KTRO, nairoviruses) (Varma and Converse 1976). Additionally, two microbes of unknown pathogenicity, Rickettsia hoogstraalii, a spotted fever group bacterium, and Rickettsiella sp., were detected with the help of molecular methods in S. transgariepinus from the Namib Desert of Namibia (Hornok et Kabát et al 2022). The MHV-68, a prototype strain of Rhadinovirus muridgamma 4 (muridgammaherpesvirus 4, MuGHV4) from the genus Rhadinovirus (Herpesviridae) that is closely related to the human viruses Lymphocryptovirus (Epstein-Barrvirus, human gamma herpesvirus 4, HuGHV4) and Rhadinovirus (Kaposi's sarcoma-associated virus, the human gamma herpesvirus 8, HuGHV8), were rst described by Dong et al (2017) and Mistríková and Briestenská (2020).…”

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First records of Secretargas transgariepinus (Argasidae) in Libya and Jordan: corrections of collection records and detection of microorganisms

Ševčík,

Špitalská,

Maliterná

et al. 2023

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The primarily bat-associated argasid, Secretargas transgariepinus (White, 1846), is a member of the Afrotropical and southern Palaearctic fauna. Probably because of its secretive life style, little is known about this species and records of its collection are scant. Based on morphological revisions of the available specimens, we report new Middle Eastern records for this tick species, that had been misidentified as other bat-associated argasid taxa. These specimens are larvae from three localities, and represent the first records of S. transgariepinus from two countries: one larva from Sabratha (Libya) was collected from an unidentified bat (possibly Eptesicus isabellinus), seven larvae from Azraq-Shishan (Jordan), and 78 larvae from Shamwari (Jordan) were all collected from Otonycteris hemprichii. Twenty larvae from Shamwari were also tested for the presence of both, viral or bacterial microorganisms by PCR. Three ticks were found to be infected with the Murine gammaherpesvirus 68, one with Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, and four with a Rickettsia sp. closely related to Rickettsia slovaca. The findings represent a first evidence for the occurrence of these possible pathogens in S. transgariepinus.

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Ectotherm vertebrates as a new potential reservoir of murid gammaherpesvirus 4

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First records of Secretargas transgariepinus (Argasidae) in Libya and Jordan: corrections of collection records and detection of microorganisms

First records of Secretargas transgariepinus (Argasidae) in Libya and Jordan: corrections of collection records and detection of microorganisms

First records of Secretargas transgariepinus (Argasidae) in Libya and Jordan: corrections of collection records and detection of microorganisms

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