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Table 1 Pathogens and endosymbionts detected in the spleen and ectoparasites of synanthropic and hemisynanthropic rodents

From: Synanthropic rodents and their ectoparasites as carriers of a novel haemoplasma and vector-borne, zoonotic pathogens indoors

Host species

Sample type

Number of specimens per animal

Total number of samples analysed

PCR positives/all tested

Haemotropic Mycoplasma spp.

Rickettsiales

Others

Haemofelis group

Result of sequencing

Rickettsia helvetica

Anaplasma phagocytophilum

Wolbachia sp.

Borrelia burgdorferi s.l.

Bartonella sp.

Mus musculus

spleen

1

37

21/37

not successful

1/37

  

1/37

 

flea (Leptopsylla segnis)

1-3

10

 

-

2/10

 

1/10

 

1/10

mite (Laelaps algericus)

1-15

3

 

-

1/3

1/3

   

Micromys minutus

spleen

1

1

1/1

nM. sp. (1×, 100%)

     

Rattus norvegicus

spleen

1

14

13/14

nM. sp. (1×, 98%), M. sp. [AB752303] (1×, 99%)*

   

1/14

 

louse (Polyplax spinulosa)

4-50

2

1*/2

-

     
  1. Abbreviation: (n)M. sp. - (novel) Mycoplasma species.
  2. One pool contained all ectoparasites of the same species removed from one host individual. All samples were tested for all pathogens shown, but only positive results are indicated. PCR positivity of corresponding samples (ectoparasites and their host) are marked with asterisk (*).
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Parasites & Vectors

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