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dc.contributor.authorSándor, Attila D
dc.contributor.authorFöldvári, Mihály
dc.contributor.authorKrawczyk, Aleksandra I
dc.contributor.authorSprong, Hein
dc.contributor.authorCorduneanu, Alexandra
dc.contributor.authorBarti, Levente
dc.contributor.authorGörföl, Tamás
dc.contributor.authorEstók, Péter
dc.contributor.authorKováts, Dávid
dc.contributor.authorSzekeres, Sándor
dc.contributor.authorLászló, Zoltán
dc.contributor.authorHornok, Sándor
dc.contributor.authorFöldvári, Gábor
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-14T09:46:22Z
dc.date.available2018-05-14T09:46:22Z
dc.date.issued2018-04-29
dc.identifier.citationEco-epidemiology of Novel Bartonella Genotypes from Parasitic Flies of Insectivorous Bats. 2018 Microb. Ecol.en
dc.identifier.issn1432-184X
dc.identifier.pmid29705820
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s00248-018-1195-z
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10029/621930
dc.description.abstractBats are important zoonotic reservoirs for many pathogens worldwide. Although their highly specialized ectoparasites, bat flies (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea), can transmit Bartonella bacteria including human pathogens, their eco-epidemiology is unexplored. Here, we analyzed the prevalence and diversity of Bartonella strains sampled from 10 bat fly species from 14 European bat species. We found high prevalence of Bartonella spp. in most bat fly species with wide geographical distribution. Bat species explained most of the variance in Bartonella distribution with the highest prevalence of infected flies recorded in species living in dense groups exclusively in caves. Bat gender but not bat fly gender was also an important factor with the more mobile male bats giving more opportunity for the ectoparasites to access several host individuals. We detected high diversity of Bartonella strains (18 sequences, 7 genotypes, in 9 bat fly species) comparable with tropical assemblages of bat-bat fly association. Most genotypes are novel (15 out of 18 recorded strains have a similarity of 92-99%, with three sequences having 100% similarity to Bartonella spp. sequences deposited in GenBank) with currently unknown pathogenicity; however, 4 of these sequences are similar (up to 92% sequence similarity) to Bartonella spp. with known zoonotic potential. The high prevalence and diversity of Bartonella spp. suggests a long shared evolution of these bacteria with bat flies and bats providing excellent study targets for the eco-epidemiology of host-vector-pathogen cycles.
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dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccessen
dc.titleEco-epidemiology of Novel Bartonella Genotypes from Parasitic Flies of Insectivorous Bats.en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.journalMicrob Ecol 2018; 76(4):1076-88en
html.description.abstractBats are important zoonotic reservoirs for many pathogens worldwide. Although their highly specialized ectoparasites, bat flies (Diptera: Hippoboscoidea), can transmit Bartonella bacteria including human pathogens, their eco-epidemiology is unexplored. Here, we analyzed the prevalence and diversity of Bartonella strains sampled from 10 bat fly species from 14 European bat species. We found high prevalence of Bartonella spp. in most bat fly species with wide geographical distribution. Bat species explained most of the variance in Bartonella distribution with the highest prevalence of infected flies recorded in species living in dense groups exclusively in caves. Bat gender but not bat fly gender was also an important factor with the more mobile male bats giving more opportunity for the ectoparasites to access several host individuals. We detected high diversity of Bartonella strains (18 sequences, 7 genotypes, in 9 bat fly species) comparable with tropical assemblages of bat-bat fly association. Most genotypes are novel (15 out of 18 recorded strains have a similarity of 92-99%, with three sequences having 100% similarity to Bartonella spp. sequences deposited in GenBank) with currently unknown pathogenicity; however, 4 of these sequences are similar (up to 92% sequence similarity) to Bartonella spp. with known zoonotic potential. The high prevalence and diversity of Bartonella spp. suggests a long shared evolution of these bacteria with bat flies and bats providing excellent study targets for the eco-epidemiology of host-vector-pathogen cycles.


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