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COMPARATIVE IMMUNOLOGY MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES
Volume 83, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cimid.2022.101779
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Tularemia; Tick; Francisella tularensis subsp; holarctica; Livestock; Tick-borne disease
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- Pasteur Institute of Iran, Iran [1744]
- Sanandaj Branch, Islamic Azad Univer-sity, Iran
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The study detected Francisella tularensis in small ruminants and ticks in Kurdistan province, confirming the presence of the bacteria in ticks and suggesting the possibility of transmission to livestock and humans through tick bites in the region.
Francisella tularensis is the causative agent of tularemia an infectious zoonotic disease. We attempted the mo-lecular detecting of F. tularensis in small ruminants and ticks attached to these animals in Kurdistan province (the west of Iran). In this study, 250 blood and 244 tick samples were collected from sheep and goats and were tested for F. tularensis ISFtu2 gene detection using the Real Time-TaqMan PCR method. The collected ticks were morphologically classified as Dermacentor marginatus (67.2%), Rhipicephalus turanicus (12.30%), Rhipicephalus sanguineus (10.66%), and Haemaphysalis concinna (9.83%). No positive F. tularensis were identified in animal blood samples. F. tularensis was detected in 2 (0.82%) ticks samples. Positive samples were identified as F. tularensis subsp. holarctica and collected from D. marginatus ticks and Divandareh county. In this study, the presence of F. tularensis in ticks of Kurdistan province was confirmed, the possible role of ticks in the transmission to livestock and human through tick bites in this region should be considered.
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