co-infections official – new study – including nematodes!
By Linda on Jul 19, 2011 in F.I.G.H.T., Infections | comments(0)
Linda’s comment: The list of tick-borne pathogens is long, varied and includes viruses, bacteria, protozoa and nematodes. As all of these agents can exist in ticks,their co-infections have been previously reported. We studied co-infectionsof emerging bacterial pathogens (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, Anaplasmaphagocytophilum and Francisella tularensis) in Ixodes ricinus ticks in Serbia. It appears they are doing some good testing…
Excerpt:
Simultaneous presence of A. phagocytophilum and different genospecies of B.
burgdorferi s.l. complex was recorded in 16 ticks, co-infection with
different B. burgdorferi s. l. genospecies was found in 15 ticks and eight
ticks harbored mixed infections with F. tularensis and B. burgdorferi s.l.
genospecies. Less common were triple pathogen species infections, detected
in three ticks, one infected with A. phagocytophilum / B. burgdorferi s.s. /
B. lusitaniae and two infected with F. tularensis / B. burgdorferi s.s. / B.
lusitaniae. No mixed infections of A. phagocytophilum and F. tularensis were
detected.
