Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus in Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus ticks collected from the Lublin region (eastern Poland)

Angelina Wójcik-Fatla; Ewa Cisak; Violetta Zając; Jacek Zwoliński; Jacek Dutkiewicz

doi:10.1016/j.ttbdis.2010.10.001

Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus in Ixodes ricinus and Dermacentor reticulatus ticks collected from the Lublin region (eastern Poland)

Ticks Tick Borne Dis. 2011 Mar;2(1):16-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2010.10.001. Epub 2011 Jan 15.

Authors

Angelina Wójcik-Fatla¹, Ewa Cisak, Violetta Zając, Jacek Zwoliński, Jacek Dutkiewicz

Affiliation

¹ Unit of Zoonoses, Institute of Agricultural Medicine, Lublin, Poland.

PMID: 21771532
DOI: 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2010.10.001

Abstract

A total of 875 nymphal and adult Ixodes ricinus ticks and 148 adult Dermacentor reticulatus ticks were collected by flagging lower vegetation in the Lublin region (eastern Poland) and examined for the presence of RNA of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV) by nested RT-PCR. The minimum infection rate of I. ricinus ticks with TBEV amounted to 1.6% while the infection rate of D. reticulatus ticks was 10.8%. The results suggest that D. reticulatus may be a potential vector of TBEV in Central Europe.

2011. Published by Elsevier GmbH.

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Arachnid Vectors / virology*
Dermacentor / virology*
Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne / genetics
Encephalitis Viruses, Tick-Borne / isolation & purification*
Female
Ixodes / virology*
Male
Poland
Prevalence
RNA, Viral / isolation & purification*
Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction

Substances

RNA, Viral