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Article Dans Une Revue Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases Année : 2020

Two novel Rickettsia species of soft ticks in North Africa: ‘Candidatus Rickettsia africaseptentrionalis’ and ‘Candidatus Rickettsia mauretanica’

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Rickettsia are obligate intracellular bacteria often reported from hard ticks but more rarely from soft ticks. In this study, we detected in Northern Africa two putatively novel Rickettsia species in soft tick species of the Ornithodoros erraticus complex: Ornithodoros occidentalis from Morocco, Ornithodoros erraticus from Algeria and Ornithodoros normandi from Tunisia. We characterized these two novel Rickettsia species on the basis of comparative DNA sequence analyses and phylogenetics of four genes (gltA, 16S rRNA, coxA and ompB). These Rickettsia, provisionally named 'Candidatus Rickettsia africaseptentrionalis' and 'Candidatus Rickettsia maur-etanica', differed in nucleotide sequence from those of other Rickettsia species by 0.38-21.43 % depending on the gene examined. Phylogenetics further showed that the two novel Rickettsia species are closely related to each other and represent sister taxa to R. hoogstraalii, R. felis and R. asembonensis within the transitional Rickettsia group. While Ornithodoros host species of 'Candidatus Rickettsia africaseptentrionalis' and 'Candidatus Rickettsia mauretanica' are among the most common soft ticks to bite humans, their pathogenicity remains to be investigated .
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hal-03001768 , version 1 (18-11-2020)

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Marie Buysse, Olivier Duron. Two novel Rickettsia species of soft ticks in North Africa: ‘Candidatus Rickettsia africaseptentrionalis’ and ‘Candidatus Rickettsia mauretanica’. Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, 2020, 11 (3), pp.101376. ⟨10.1016/j.ttbdis.2020.101376⟩. ⟨hal-03001768⟩
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