Possible Association between Selected Tick-Borne Pathogen Prevalence and Rhipicephalus sanguineus sensu lato Infestation in Dogs from Juarez City (Chihuahua), Northwest Mexico-US Border

Tick-borne bacterial pathogens (TBBPs) show a worldwide distribution and represent a great impact on public health. The brown dog tick ( ) is a vector of several pathogens that affect dogs and sometimes humans as well. In addition, TBBPs represent a diagnostic challenge and imply financial resources...

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Published in:Pathogens (Basel) 2022-05, Vol.11 (5), p.552
Main Authors: Beristain-Ruiz, Diana M, Garza-Hernández, Javier A, Figueroa-Millán, Julio V, Lira-Amaya, José J, Quezada-Casasola, Andrés, Ordoñez-López, Susana, Laredo-Tiscareño, Stephanie Viridiana, Alvarado-Robles, Beatriz, Castillo-Luna, Oliver R, Floriano-López, Adriana, Hernández-Triana, Luis M, Martínez-Ibáñez, Francisco, Rivera-Barreno, Ramón, Rodríguez-Alarcón, Carlos A
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Language:English
Subjects:
Arachnids
Blood
Dogs
Domestic animals
Epidemiology
Females
Infections
Infectious diseases
Males
Medical treatment
Mexico–US border
Morphology
Otobius megnini
Pathogens
Public health
Rhipicephalus sanguineus
Rhipicephalus sanguineus
Risk factors
tick-borne pathogens
Ticks
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Summary:Tick-borne bacterial pathogens (TBBPs) show a worldwide distribution and represent a great impact on public health. The brown dog tick ( ) is a vector of several pathogens that affect dogs and sometimes humans as well. In addition, TBBPs represent a diagnostic challenge and imply financial resources and medical treatment for long periods of time. In the present study, s. l. was identified as the main tick species naturally parasitizing dogs that inhabit. Juárez City, Chihuahua, in the Paso del Norte region, Mexico-US Border, representing 99.8% of the cases. Additionally, an end-point PCR was performed to search for whether pathogens in s. l. can transmit in DNA extracted from ticks and dog blood samples. This is the first molecular detection of infecting domestic dogs in Mexico; however, other pathogens were also identified, such as and in both ticks and dog blood samples, while was identified only in dog blood samples. Moreover, co-detection in tick pools and co-infection in the analyzed dog blood samples could be found. Similarly, this research showed that dogs were found mostly parasitized by adult female ticks, increasing the possibility of transmission of .
ISSN:2076-0817
2076-0817
DOI:10.3390/pathogens11050552