A total of 6,255 ticks belonging to three genera and six species (Haemaphysalis flava Neumann, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann, Haemaphysalis phasiana Saito, Ixodes nipponensis Kitaoka & Saito, Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, and Amblyomma testudinarium Koch) collected from May–August, 2013, at four southwestern provinces in the Republic of Korea (ROK) were submitted to the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences and assayed for selected tick-borne pathogens. One pool each of H. flava and H. phasiana was positive by PCR and sequencing for a Francisella-like endosymbiont, while all pools were negative for Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia.
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12 July 2017
Francisella-Like Endosymbiont Detected in Haemaphysalis Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) From the Republic of Korea
Ratree Takhampunya,
Heung-Chul Kim,
Sung-Tae Chong,
Achareeya Korkusol,
Bousaraporn Tippayachai,
Silas A. Davidson,
Jeannine M. Petersen,
Terry A. Klein
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Journal of Medical Entomology
Vol. 54 • No. 6
November 2017
Vol. 54 • No. 6
November 2017
Francisella tularensis endosymbiont
Haemaphysalis flava
Haemaphysalis phasiana
Korea
tick surveillance