养狗要防莱姆病

莱姆病是由伯氏疏螺旋体引起的一种蜱媒螺旋体病。目前,已有19个国家发现该病流行。我国在山东、新疆、安徽、黑龙江等省区也发现了莱姆病患者。 以前认为蜱虫是莱姆病的主要传播者,近来,临床研究人员又发现狗和蝇类也能携带伯氏疏螺旋体而传播该病,而且狗感染伯氏螺旋体的的危险性更大。当携带伯氏螺旋体的蜱叮咬人时,寄生在蜱体内     

莱姆病螺旋体感染对蜱的4个功能基因的转录影响

为探索蜱及蜱传病的防控新策略,了解病原与媒介硬蜱相互作用的分子机制,本研究以莱姆病病原伯氏疏螺旋体感染后对长角血蜱4个功能基因的转录影响进行了研究。将不同浓度梯度的伯氏疏螺旋体显微注射到长角血蜱体内,分不同的时间段提取蜱的总RNA,反转录成cDNA后,用实时荧光定量PCR检测蜱基因的表达水平。结果显示:伯氏疏螺旋体感染对蜱半胱氨酸蛋白酶抑制剂1(HLcyst-1)、半胱氨酸蛋白酶抑制剂3(HLcyst-3)、卵泡抑素(FRP)、凝血酶抑制剂(Hemalin)4个功能基因的转录均产生了显著影响,但存在时间和剂量相关性,感染后第4天显著诱导了长角血蜱HLcyst-1基因的表达,抑制了Hemalin基因表达。     

荧光定量PCR检测硬蜱体内莱姆病螺旋体的研究

为建立一个荧光定量PCR检测硬蜱体内莱姆病螺旋体的方法,根据GenBank登录的莱姆病螺旋体鞭毛蛋白FlaB序列,应用生物学软件进行序列比对,在保守的C段区设计与筛选特异引物和TaqMan探针。对荧光定量PCR反应体系与条件进行优化,验证方法的特异性、敏感性,并通过对感染螺旋体的蜱样本的检测,评价该方法的实用价值。结果显示,自然感染莱姆病螺旋体的35份蜱标本检测阳性符合率100%,正常蜱20份标本的检测结果均为阴性。该方法对牛巴贝斯原虫、泰勒原虫、边缘无浆体、金龟子绿僵菌、大肠杆菌等蜱体常见病原微生物所抽提的DNA的检测均呈阴性。荧光定量PCR方法检测质粒的灵敏度可达1×102拷贝/μL。TaqMan荧光定量PCR方法检测硬蜱体内莱姆病螺旋体具有较好的敏感性和特异性,可适于莱姆病的流行病学调查和监控。     

内蒙古锡林郭勒地区牛羊莱姆病的流行病学调查

本项研究于2000年5月至2001年5月从内蒙古锡林郭勒盟地区，不同草原景观带牛、羊体表和草地采集草原血蜱1800只。用直接荧光接体法和暗视野显微镜检查蜱带菌情况，带菌率分别为7．5％（6／80）和2％（2／100）。用间接荧光法进行血清流行病学调查，结果证实，调查点的牛和野鼠均存在莱姆病螺旋体感染，其感染率分别为10％和20％，都高于当地人群平均感染率（7．09％）。上述研究证实内蒙古锡林郭勒地区人畜及野生动物均有莱姆病螺旋体感染。     

伯氏疏螺旋体套式PCR检测方法建立及应用

为了解新疆北疆地区硬蜱携带莱姆病病原伯氏疏螺旋体的流行现状,选择莱姆病病原伯氏疏螺旋体5S-23S rRNA基因间隔区设计嵌套式引物,建立了具有较高敏感性和特异性的伯氏疏螺旋体套式PCR检测方法,应用该方法对2018—2019年在新疆北疆6个地区采集的硬蜱进行伯氏疏螺旋体带菌率检测。结果显示:伯氏疏螺旋体总阳性率为15.17%(81/534),其中青河县阳性率最高,达23.64%(26/110)。提示:应进一步加强及重视北疆地区莱姆病的防控工作。     

动物的莱姆病

莱姆病是一种新发现的人兽共患病。病原体为伯氏疏螺旋体，通常以硬蜱为传播媒介，在人和动物中广泛流行，属自然疫源性疾病。本文就莱姆病的病原、流行概况、传播媒介及动物感染、流行特点、临床症状、诊断、治疗及防制措施作了概述。１９７５年，Ｓｔｅｅｒｅ在美国康涅狄格州莱姆镇发现了一种儿童中罹患的特殊的关节炎，由于最初在莱姆镇发现，故名莱姆病。１９８２年，Ｂｕｒｇｄｏｒｆｅｒｉ和Ｂａｒｂｏｕｒ从硬蜱体内分离出一     

全沟硬蜱围食膜初步观察研究

本工作用光镜和电镜技术对全沟硬蜱的围食膜进行了初步观察研究。结果表明，饥饿幼虫、若虫、成虫以及吸血期雄性成虫不具围食膜。吸血期幼虫、若虫及雌性成虫最晚分别于吸血开始后20、20及18小时出现了单层结构的围食膜；缓慢吸血期围食膜的厚度持续增加，而在快速吸血期其厚度却会显著减小。饱血后发育期围食膜不断增厚，愈来愈拱曲，与肠壁的距离不断扩大，并形成多层结构；至少分别于饱血后12、25及11天，仍能在幼虫、若虫及雌性成虫肠腔观察到完好状态的围食膜。全沟硬蜱是我国北方地区多种血液传播病原体的重要媒介，其围食膜的发现及围食膜形态变化的初步描述，对进一步认识这些病原体在全沟硬蜱体内迁移扩散规律、发育动态以及向宿主的传播途径，可提供有益的启示。     

莱姆病

莱姆病(Lyme disease，LD)是20世纪70年代发现的一种以蜱作传播媒介，由伯氏疏螺旋体(Borrelia burgdorfere，Bb)感染所致的人畜共患传染病。     

鸡疏螺旋体病的诊疗报告

鸡疏螺旋体病的诊疗报告邓绍基（广西贺县畜牧局５４２８００）鸡疏螺旋体病是一种以蜱和螨传播，由禽疏螺旋体引起的急性、热性传染病。发病率可由１０％到将近１００％不等，病死率一般为１％～２％，但易感禽类（在有大量媒介吸血昆虫存在时）几乎达１００％。本病最初...     

锡林郭勒盟草原莱姆病疫源地调查

本项研究于2000年5月—2001年5月从内蒙古锡林郭勒盟地区，不同草原景现带牛、羊体表和草地采集草原血蝉1800只，用直接荧光抗体法检查蜱带菌情况，带菌率为7.5%(6/80)。晴视野显微镜检查蜱带菌情况，带菌率为2%（2/100）；用间接荧光法进行血清流行病学调查，结果证实，调查点的牛和野鼠均存在莱姆病螺旋体感染，其感染率分别为10%和20%，都高于当地人群平均感染率（7.09%)，上述研究证实内蒙古锡林郭勒盟地区人畜及野生动物均有莱姆病螺旋体感染。     

Co-feeding studies of ticks infected with Anaplasma marginale

Ticks often cluster at preferred feeding sites on hosts, and the co-feeding of ticks at the same site has been shown to increase feeding success and the transmission of some pathogens. While the major route of infection of ticks with pathogens is via the bloodmeal during feeding on a parasitemic host, non-systemic transmission of viruses and spirochetes has been shown to occur from infected to uninfected ticks at common feeding sites on uninfected hosts. In this research, two separate studies were done using the tick-borne rickettsial pathogen of cattle, Anaplasma marginale. In one study we tested whether A. marginale could be transmitted non-systemically from infected to uninfected Dermacentor variabilis males while co-feeding on rabbits. Infection of ticks was determined by allowing them to transmission feed on susceptible cattle and by DNA probe and microscopy studies on salivary glands. In the second study, we tested whether the co-feeding of male and female ticks on parasitemic cattle would increase the acquisition and development of A. marginale in males. A. marginale infections in salivary glands were determined by quantitative PCR after the ticks were allowed to transmission feed on susceptible cattle. Non-systemic transmission of A. marginale did not occur from infected and uninfected ticks that fed at the same site on rabbits and, therefore, does not appear to be a means of A. marginale transmission. A. marginale infections in male ticks were not increased while co-feeding with females. Thus, co-feeding of adult Dermacentor spp. does not appear to influence the dynamics of A. marginale transmission.     

Biology of ticks

Ticks are an ancient group of obligate bloodsucking ectoparasites that has evolved over millions of years. Two general types of ticks are evident today: argasid or soft ticks, and ixodid or hard ticks. Each lineage exhibits distinct patterns of host coevolution and preference. However, about 10% of the approximately 850 species are of medical importance because of their indiscriminate host selection and catholic feeding behavior. As a result, a number of diseases have begun to emerge in the temperate zones, including Lyme borreliosis and several others putatively associated with ticks. Ticks may serve as both pathogens and disease vectors. Because of the unique physiology of the salivary glands and the contents in tick saliva of toxins, feeding alone may cause disease. Ticks also transmit a number of different types of pathogens (viruses, rickettsiae, spirochetes and bacteria, fungi, protozoa, filarial nematodes) and even exceed mosquitoes in this regard. Abatement and control of ticks emphasizes a broad approach because of the differing types of habitats in which pest species may be found. The use of repellents and acaricides as well as cultural and management practices are of primary importance. Other approaches (ivermectin) may be beneficial; with the advent of molecular genetics and its usefulness in immunology, the development of tick vaccines for common pest species appears promising.     

The maturation of Theileria annulata in Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum stimulated by incubation or feeding to produce sporozoites

Adult Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum ticks infected with Theileria annulata (Hissar strain) were incubated at 36 degrees C or fed on rabbits. Tick salivary glands were stained whole with methyl green pyronin or ground up and deposited on microscope slides and stained with Giemsa's solution. Separate batches of ticks from both treatments were ground up, centrifuged and filtered to produce sporozoite suspensions. The suspensions were examined as deposits on microscope slides stained with Giemsa's solution. The Theileria in the salivary glands of the fed ticks matured more completely and rapidly than in the incubated ticks. The peak numbers of sporozoites from the fed ticks was greater by at least tenfold than the peak from the incubated ticks. This peak was on the third day of feeding or on the fourth day of incubation. It was confirmed that fed ticks will be more suitable for sporozoite production for infection of cattle and production of stabilates.     

Development of Anaplasma marginale in male Dermacentor andersoni transferred from parasitemic to susceptible cattle.

The development and transmission of Anaplasma marginale was studied in Dermacentor andersoni males. Laboratory-reared male D andersoni were allowed to feed for 7 days on a calf with ascending A marginale parasitemia. The ticks were then held in a humidity chamber for 7 days before being placed on 2 susceptible calves. Anaplasmosis developed in the calves after incubation periods of 24 and 26 days. Gut and salivary glands were collected from ticks on each day of the 23-day experiment and examined with light and electron microscopy. Colonies of A marginale were first observed in midgut epithelial cells on the sixth day of feeding on infected calves, with the highest density of colonies found in gut cells while ticks were between feeding periods. The first colonies contained 1 large dense organism that subsequently gave rise to many reticulated organisms. Initially, these smaller organisms were electron-lucent and then became electron-dense. On the fifth day after ticks were transferred to susceptible calves for feeding, A marginale colonies were found in muscle cells on the hemocoel side of the gut basement membrane. A final site for development of A marginale was the salivary glands. Colonies were first seen in acinar cells on the first day that ticks fed on susceptible calves, with the highest percentage of infected host cells observed on days 7 to 9 of that feeding. Organisms within these colonies were initially electron-lucent, but became electron-dense.     

Preliminary studies of the development of Anaplasma marginale in salivary glands of adult, feeding Dermacentor andersoni ticks

On each day of feeding on susceptible calves, salivary glands obtained from groups of adult ticks that transmitted Anaplasma marginale were examined for A marginale colonies by use of light microscopy and transmission electron microscopy. On day 8 of feeding, salivary glands were examined, using fluorescein-labeled antibody and methyl green-pyronine stain. Use of fluorescein-labeled antibody consistently revealed small numbers of fluorescent foci in salivary gland acinar cells obtained from ticks that had fed for 8 days. Colonies of A marginale were seen by transmission electron microscopy only in salivary gland acini of male ticks; these colonies could not be identified, using light microscopy, in companion 1-micron plastic sections stained with Mallory stain. Methyl green-pyronine stain, used commonly to detect theilerial parasites in tick salivary glands, did not differentiate A marginale from cytoplasmic inclusions normally found in salivary gland acinar cells.     

Morphology and development of Cowdria ruminantium in Amblyomma ticks

The morphology and development of Cowdria ruminantium have been studied in Amblyomma hebraeum and A. variegatum. Colonies of C. ruminantium have so far been demonstrated microscopically in gut, salivary gland cells, haemocytes and malphighian tubules of infected Amblyomma ticks. Colonies in gut cells were seen in both unfed and feeding ticks but colonies in salivary gland acini were observed only in nymphs that had fed for 4 days. Although the predominant type seen in both tick stages was the reticulated form that appeared to divide by binary fission, electron dense forms were also present. The latter are similar to those forms documented in endothelial cells of the vertebrate host as well as in cell culture. The presence of colonies of C. ruminantium in salivary glands of feeding ticks, along with the demonstration of different morphologic forms of the organism, suggests that a developmental cycle of the organism occurs in its invertebrate host. It is thought that organisms first infect and develop within gut cells. From there subsequent stages continue their development in haemolymph and salivary glands and are then transferred to the vertebrate host during tick feeding. Further studies are needed to completely understand the development of C. ruminantium in ticks and its subsequent transmission by these parasites.     

Systemic granulomatous disease and sialometaplasia in a dog with Bartonella infection

Systemic granulomatous disease involving the spleen, heart, lymph nodes, omentum, liver, kidney, lung, mediastinum, and salivary glands developed in an 8-year-old Rottweiler. The dog also had sialometaplasia of both submandibular salivary glands. Bartonella henselae and B. vinsonii subsp. berkhoffii DNA was amplified from the salivary gland by polymerase chain reaction analysis. Bartonellae may be the cause of this systemic disease, but to the authors' knowledge, involvement of omentum, mediastinum, and salivary glands has not previously been reported in association with Bartonella infection. Bartonellae should be considered potential causes of sialometaplasia.     

Identification of Theileria infections in the salivary glands of Hyalomma anatolicum anatoli cum and Rhipicephalus appendiculatus using isoenzyme electrophoresis

Lysates prepared from the salivary glands of uninfected Hyalomma anatolicum anatolicum and Rhipicephalus appendiculatus and from ticks of these species infected with 2 strains of Theileria annulata and 1 strain of T. parva respectively have been examined for enzyme polymorphism using thin layer starch gel electrophoresis. Representative enzymes from 3 of the major metabolic pathways, the tricarboxylic acid cycle, the glycolytic pathway and the pentose phosphate pathway were investigated. Only 1 enzyme, glucose phosphate isomerase, showed differences between the host cell activity and the parasite activity and also inter- and intraspecific differences between the parasites. This technique represents a useful complement to the present histochemical methods for identification of Theileria infections in the salivary glands of ticks.     

湖北省水牛巴贝斯虫病调查研究 Ⅴ.镰形扇头蜱经卵传递牛巴贝斯虫的证实

1986年从病牛身上摘下饱血雌蜱,经实验室饲养,孵化为第二代成蜱,人工越冬。于1987年将上述蜱100只接种于已去脾23天的一岁龄健康水牛,以后每天从该牛身上取蜱查其唾液腺。结果在吸血期间,始终查到梨形虫体,其平均大小为1.3×0.68微米。接种后第4天,牛血中开始出现巴贝斯虫,至第19天,红细胞感染率高达9.6％,单梨形虫体大小为0.84～2.64×0.42～1.22微米,双梨形虫体大小为0.64～1.64×0.37～0.97微米,以后逐渐下阵。该牛出现体温升高)41.6℃)、严重贫血(血红蛋白量2克,红细胞压积14％,红细胞总数177万/毫米~3)、黄疸及精神萎顿等症状。上述结果表明,该牛感染了巴贝斯虫病,由此证实镰形扇头蜱是经卵传递巴贝斯虫,其感染阶段是成蜱。