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Identification of Ehrlichia chaffeensis, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, and A. bovis in Haemaphysalis longicornis and Ixodes persulcatus ticks from Korea.

A total of 1,467 tick (1,463 of Haemaphysalis longicornis, three of Ixodes persulcatus and one of I. turdus) collected from nine provinces of Korea were examined by TaqMan real-time PCR for the presence of Ehrlichia and Anaplasma species. One set of primers and a probe were designed for detection of all of the Ehrlichia and Anaplasma species. Template DNAs (total 803) were prepared either from pools of larvae, nymphs, adult males and females, or from the salivary gland and midgut of adult ticks. Only DNAs positive in TaqMan PCR were examined for A. phagocytophilum with nested PCR and for E. chaffeensis with PCR. Four A. phagocytophilum 16S rRNA gene PCR products were sequenced for comparison with sequences previously reported. Amplification of a 16S rRNA gene fragment of Ehrlichia and Anaplasma species was observed in 364 tick DNAs (45.3% of the total). Of these 364 positive ticks, species-specific PCRs confirmed that 35 H. longicornis and one I. persulcatus were positive for A. phagocytophilum and one I. persulcatus was positive in E. chaffeensis. Except for one (AB-GGHL, GenBank accession number [GAN] AF470698), three of the four 16S rRNA gene fragment sequences of the A. phagocytophilum-positive samples were similar or identical to the sequences of variants of A. phagocytophilum deposited in GenBank. The 16S rRNA gene fragment sequence of AB-GGHL was similar to that of Anaplasma (Ehrlichia) bovis 16S rRNA (GAN U03775). The identities of the Anaplasmataceae genus and species DNA in the 327 ticks that could not be confirmed infected with either E. chaffeensis, A. phagocytophilum, or A. bovis are not known. This study is the first to demonstrate the presence of E. chaffeensis, A. phagocytophilum and A. bovis in Korean ticks.

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