Journal of Medical Entomology (2017) 54, 1735-1742

Ratree Takhampunya, Heung-Chul Kim, Sung-Tae Chong, Achareeya Korkusol, Bousaraporn Tippayachai, Silas A. Davidson, Jeannine M. Petersen and Terry A. Klein (2017)
Francisella-like endosymbiont detected in Haemaphysalis ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) from the Republic of Korea
Journal of Medical Entomology 54 (6), 1735-1742
Abstract: A total of 6,255 ticks belonging to three genera and six species (Haemaphysalis flava Neumann, Haemaphysalis longicornis Neumann, Haemaphysalis phasiana Saito, Ixodes nipponensis Kitaoka and Saito, Ixodes persulcatus Schulze, and Amblyomma testudinarium Koch) collected from May–August, 2013, at four southwestern provinces in the Republic of Korea (ROK) were submitted to the Armed Forces Research Institute of Medical Sciences and assayed for selected tick-borne pathogens. One pool each of H. flava and H. phasiana was positive by PCR and sequencing for a Francisella-like endosymbiont, while all pools were negative for Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia.
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Research topic(s) for pests/diseases/weeds:
surveys/sampling/distribution

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Pest and/or beneficial records:

Beneficial	Pest/Disease/Weed	Crop/Product	Country	Quarant.
	Ixodes persulcatus		Korea-South
	Haemaphysalis longicornis		Korea-South
	Haemaphysalis flava		Korea-South
	Ixodes nipponensis		Korea-South
	Amblyomma testudinarium		Korea-South