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Come on Canada...where is our research on this? As usual, not done. What are the implications of a lower infection rate in trillions of mosquitos compared to just tens of millions of ticks? Staggering one might think.
Folia Biol (Krakow). 2007;55(3-4):143-6
Ticks and mosquitoes as vectors of Borrelia burgdorferi s. l. in the forested areas of Szczecin.
Kosik-Bogacka DI, Kuzna-Grygiel W, Jaborowska M.
Department of Biology and Medical Parasitology, Pomeranian Medical University, Powstancow Wielkopolskich Av. 72, 70-111 Szczecin, Poland. kodan@sci.pam.szczecin.pl
The aim of the study was to determine the infection level of adult forms and larvae of ticks and mosquitoes with Borrelia burgdorferi in the forested areas of Szczecin. A total of 1699 ticks Ixodes ricinus, including 1422 nymphs, 277 adult forms and 2862 mosquito females representing the genera Aedes (89.6%) and Culex (10.4%) were collected between the years 2004 and 2005. A further 3746 larvae and 1596 pupae of Culex pipiens pipiens were colleted from water bodies. Borrelia burgdorferi s. l. was detected in the arthropods by the method of indirect immunofluorescence assay (IFA). A positive immunological reaction was detected in 16.6% of the adult forms and in 16.5% of the nymphs of Ixodes ricinus.
Spirochetes were also detected in 1.7% of mosquito females, 3.2% of larvae and in 1.6% of pupae of Culex pipiens pipiens. The results of the present study confirm that contact with ticks constitutes the main risk of contracting Lyme disease, although mosquitoes play a role as vectors as well.
Isolation of Borrelia afzelii from overwintering Culex pipiens biotype
molestus mosquitoes.
Ann Agric Environ Med. 2006;13(2):345-8.
* Zakovska A,
* Capkova L,
* Sery O,
* Halouzka J,
* Dendis M.
Department of Comparative Animal Physiology and General Zoology, Faculty
of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlarska 2, CZ-611 37 Brno, Czech Republic;
alenazak@sci.muni.cz.
A total of 662 samples (winter period: 469; summer period: 193
specimens) of female mosquitoes of the genus Culex, Aedes and Anopheles were
collected during the period March 2000-April 2001 from the locality of
Vysoke Myto (Eastern Bohemia, Czech Republic). They were examined by dark
field microscopy for the presence of spirochetes. The motile spirochetes
were observed in 4.2 % of all species of investigated mosquitoes. One
spirochetal strain out of the 8 isolation attempts (BRZ14) was obtained
(cultivation rate was 12.5 %) and the spirochetal strain was then
successfully cultivated and identified using PCR for the presence of
Borrelia burgdorferi s.l., and subsequently with the RFLP as genomospecies
Borrelia afzelii. This strain was derived from overwintering Culex (Culex)
pipiens biotype molestus female mosquitoe. This is apparently one of the
sporadic cases of the occurrence of pathogenic borreliae in haematophagous
arthropods, other than Ixodes ricinus complex ticks.
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