Investigation of tick species and potential pathogenic ricks in certain areas of Wuwei City,Gansu Province
10.3969/j.issn.1002-2694.2024.00.049
- VernacularTitle:甘肃省武威市部分地区蜱种调查及潜在病原体风险探讨
- Author:
Rui-Shan LI
1
;
Zhen HE
;
Xiang YUAN
;
Shi-Wei SUN
;
Yi-Wen LIU
;
Wen-Kai ZHANG
;
Lin ZHANG
;
Yu-Hua WANG
;
Zhen-Hua LU
;
Zhao-Hua JI
;
Zhong-Jun SHAO
Author Information
1. 甘肃中医药大学公共卫生学院,兰州 730000;空军军医大学军事预防医学系军队防疫与流行病学教研室,特殊作业环境危害评估与防治教育部重点实验室,西安 710032
- Keywords:
tick;
tick species identification;
sanger se-quencing;
genetic evolutionary analysis
- From:
Chinese Journal of Zoonoses
2024;40(4):328-333
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
To understand the distribution of ticks in the Wuwei Region,enrich tick species data,and provide a basis for the prevention of tick-borne diseases,tick were collected using flagging and tick-picking methods during the highest activity period from April to September in 2021 and 2022 in the mountainous areas of Wuwei City.The ticks were identified based on morpho-logical and molecular biological characteristics,and characteristic sequences were obtained.A systematic evolutionary tree was constructed using the neighbor-joining method in MEGA 11.0 software.In total,7 342 ticks collected in Wuwei,which be-longed to 5 species from 4 genera with in the Ixodidae family,which included Dermacentor nuttalli,Hyalomma asiaticum,Ixodes canisuga,Haemaphysalis longicornis and Haema-physalis danieli.Ticks of the same species clustered together into the same branch of an evolutionary tree.In the Wuwei Re-gion,five common tick species are found across various habi-tats,with each habitat featuring different distributions of tick species and populations.The Dermacentor nuttalli is the dom-inant tick species in this area.
