Molecular epidemiological study on the host and role of the Hantavirus and Orientia tsutsugamushi in the same epidemic area.
- Author:
Xiao-zhao DENG
1
;
Yun ZHANG
;
Jing KONG
;
Zhong-can WANG
;
Zhan-qing YANG
;
Wei-chu HUANG
;
De-mao SU
;
Guo-jin YAN
;
Zhan-qiu YANG
Author Information
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH: Animals; Disease Vectors; Hantavirus; genetics; pathogenicity; Hemorrhagic Fever with Renal Syndrome; epidemiology; Host-Parasite Interactions; Orientia tsutsugamushi; genetics; pathogenicity; Rats; Scrub Typhus; epidemiology; Trombiculidae; microbiology
- From: Chinese Journal of Preventive Medicine 2008;42(8):574-577
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVETo investigate whether Hantavirus (HV) and Orientia tsutsugamushi ( OT) can naturally infect and coexist in their host and role.
METHODSBy field epidemiological study, Leptotrombidium scutellare (3829) was collected and separated from mice(166) in epidemic areas. The cells of mites separated from their host and role were cultured. PCR was used to detect HV-RNA and OT-DNA in the cell culture.
RESULTSIn 105 Apodemus agrarius, 3 HV-RNA positive, 2 OT-DNA positive and 2 coinfection with HV and OT were detected;in 41 Brown rattus, 2 HV-RNA positive, 1 OT-DNA positive and 1 co-infection with HV and OT were detected. From 15 mites co-infected with HV and OT, 2 strains of HV pathogen, 2 strains of OT pathogen were separated and 1 HV and OT pathogen in the same mite were separate.
CONCLUSIONThe study demonstrates that co-infection of HV and OT did simultaneously exist in wild Leptotrombidium scutellare. This theory has some significance to the epidemic and precaution of HV and OT.
