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A pilot study aimed to investigate wild rodents as reservoirs for zoonotic tick-borne pathogens\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">(Borrelia burgdorferi<\/jats:italic>\n                    sensu lato (s.l.),\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Coxiella burnetii<\/jats:italic>\n                    ,\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Francisella tularensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    , and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Anaplasma phagocytophilum)<\/jats:italic>\n                    was carried out in an area of Gran Sasso e Monti della Laga National Park (Abruzzi Region, central Italy), a wide protected area where, despite sporadic reports of infection in humans and animals, eco-epidemiological data on these diseases are still not available. Rodents were trapped and released at the capture site after the collection of feeding ticks and blood samples. In all, 172 ticks were collected; the most frequent species was\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Ixodes acuminatus<\/jats:italic>\n                    (53%). Out of 88 tick pools, 11 resulted positive for\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">C. burnetii<\/jats:italic>\n                    and 13 for\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">B. burgdorferi<\/jats:italic>\n                    s.l.; the\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Borrelia afzelii<\/jats:italic>\n                    genospecies was identified in one\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Ixodes ricinus<\/jats:italic>\n                    tick collected from one\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Apodemus<\/jats:italic>\n                    sp. rodent. Out of 143 blood samples, seven\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Apodemus<\/jats:italic>\n                    spp. and five\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Myodes glareolus<\/jats:italic>\n                    were positive for\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">B. burgdorferi<\/jats:italic>\n                    s.l. and two\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Apodemus<\/jats:italic>\n                    spp. were positive for\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">C. burnetii.<\/jats:italic>\n                    All samples (ticks and blood) were negative for\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">F. tularensis<\/jats:italic>\n                    and\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">A. phagocytophilum<\/jats:italic>\n                    . This is the first report of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">B. burgdorferi<\/jats:italic>\n                    s.l. in the environment for Abruzzi Region. Data on the presence of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">B. burgdorferi<\/jats:italic>\n                    s.l. are similar to that observed in other Mediterranean countries. The present work is also the first report of\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">C. burnetii<\/jats:italic>\n                    in wild rodents in Italy.\n                    <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">C. burnetii<\/jats:italic>\n                    infection has been largely investigated in Italy in ruminant farms by serology and molecular methods, but information on ecology and on the wild cycle are still lacking. Further studies including genotyping should be performed and species-specific differences between wild rodent reservoirs of Q fever and Lyme disease agents should be investigated.\n                  <\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1089\/vbz.2015.1807","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2015,7,2]],"date-time":"2015-07-02T15:41:22Z","timestamp":1435851682000},"page":"404-411","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":50,"title":["Detection of Lyme Disease and Q Fever Agents in Wild Rodents in Central Italy"],"prefix":"10.1177","volume":"15","author":[{"given":"Ilaria","family":"Pascucci","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell'Abruzzo e del Molise \u201cG. 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