First detection of Rickettsia in soft-bodied ticks associated with seabirds, Japan

Microbiol Immunol. 2006;50(5):403-6. doi: 10.1111/j.1348-0421.2006.tb03807.x.

Abstract

Rickettsia was first detected in seabird soft-bodied ticks, Carios capensis and C. sawaii in Japan. According to sequence analysis, Rickettsia in Japan was identical to Rickettsia scc31 in C. capensis in the U.S.A. This suggested that an environmental circulation had consisted among microorganisms, ticks and long distance migratory seabirds around the Pacific Ocean.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Birds / parasitology*
  • Female
  • Japan
  • Male
  • Phylogeny
  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S / genetics
  • Rickettsia / genetics
  • Rickettsia / isolation & purification*
  • Ticks / microbiology*

Substances

  • RNA, Ribosomal, 16S