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VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY
Volume 238, Issue -, Pages 58-60Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2017.03.020
Keywords
Babesia; Babesia microti; Ixodes ricinus; Zoonoses; Disease reservoirs; Disease vectors
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- PhD fellowship from the region of Brittany
- French National Research Agency [ANR-11-Agro-001-04]
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In order to evaluate the zoonotic risk due to Babesia spp., especially B. microti, we investigated their presence in 597 individuals of five small mammal species and in 2620 questing nymphs of Ixodes ricinus in rural landscapes of Western France (Brittany). Small mammals (rodents and shrews) are indeed suspected to be reservoir hosts for B. microti, and the tick I. ricinus is the vector of the three main zoonotic species in Europe, i.e. B. divergens, B. venatorum and B. microti. Only one bank vole carried B. microti (genotype Munich) and only 13 and 2 nymphs of Ixodes ricinus ticks carried B. venatorwn and B. capreoli respectively. According to these results, prevalences observed for zoonotic Babesia (0.17% for small mammals and 0.50% for ticks), indicate that exposure of humans to this infectious agent is probably low in western France.
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