First record of natural infection with Anaplasma marginale in sucking lice infesting the water buffalo ( Bubalus bubalis
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First record of natural infection with Anaplasma marginale in sucking lice infesting the water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) in Mexico Alejandra Hernández-Velasco 1,2 & Sokani Sánchez-Montes 3,4 & Dora Romero-Salas 2 & Anabel Cruz-Romero 1,2 & José Alfredo Jiménez-Hernández 1 & Ingeborg Becker 3 & Mariel Aguilar-Domínguez 2 & Adalberto Pérez de León 5 Received: 25 October 2019 / Accepted: 14 June 2020 # Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature 2020
Abstract The water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) is an Asian species of bovine which was introduced in Mexico in 1992, as an alternative for milk and meat production. However, little is known about its associated ectoparasites, in particular about their lice. As a part of a project to identify the diversity and prevalence of Anaplasma in cattle and water buffaloes in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, we visited a ranch in the downtown area in which 42 buffaloes were visually inspected for the presence of ectoparasites. Lice were manually recovered, and morphologically identified using taxonomic keys. They were also molecularly identified by the amplification of a fragment of the cytochrome oxidase C subunit I gene (COX1). As a result, we recovered 20 lice from eight animals. All lice were identified as Haematopinus tuberculatus, and the recovered sequences exhibited a similarity of 99.7% with those of the same species deposited in GenBank. Additionally, we detected the presence of Anaplasma marginale in 70% (14/20) of the analysed samples. Our results represent the first record of this exotic ectoparasite for the country. Keywords Haematopinus tuberculatus . Lice . Mexico . Anaplasma marginale . Potential vector
Introduction Section Editor: Neil Bruce Chilton * Dora Romero-Salas [email protected] * Anabel Cruz-Romero [email protected] 1
Laboratorio de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Posta Zootécnica Torreón del Molino, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico
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Laboratorio de Parasitología, Posta Zootécnica Torreón del Molino, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria y Zootecnia, Universidad Veracruzana, Circunvalación y Yáñez s/n, 91710 Veracruz, Mexico
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Centro de Medicina Tropical, Unidad de Investigación en Medicina Experimental, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico
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Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y Agropecuarias región Tuxpan, Universidad Veracruzana, Veracruz, Mexico
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USDA-ARS Knipling-Bushland U.S. Livestock Insects Research Laboratory and Veterinary Pest Genomics Center, Kerrville, TX, USA
Haematopinus tuberculatus (Burmeister 1839) is a sucking louse which has a close relationship with its only known host, the water buffalo (Bubalus bubalis) (Durden and Musser 1994). This is a native ectoparasite species from the Eastern region, which has been originally described in India, and has spread quickly throughout the world (particularly towards tropical regions) with buffalo mobilization as an alternative for the production
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