TY  - JOUR
A1  - Regier, Yvonne
A1  - Komma, Kassandra
A1  - Weigel, Markus
A1  - Pulliainen, Arto T.
A1  - Göttig, Stephan
A1  - Hain, Torsten
A1  - Kempf, Volkhard A. J.
T1  - Microbiome analysis reveals the presence of Bartonella spp. and Acinetobacter spp. in deer keds (Lipoptena cervi)
T2  - Frontiers in microbiology
N2  - The deer ked (Lipoptena cervi) is distributed in Europe, North America, and Siberia and mainly infests cervids as roe deer, fallow deer, and moose. From a one health perspective, deer keds occasionally bite other animals or humans and are a potential vector for Bartonella schoenbuchensis. This bacterium belongs to a lineage of ruminant-associated Bartonella spp. and is suspected to cause dermatitis and febrile diseases in humans. In this study, we analyzed the microbiome from 130 deer keds collected from roe deer, fallow deer and humans in the federal states of Hesse, Baden-Wuerttemberg, and Brandenburg, Germany. Endosymbiontic Arsenophonus spp. and Bartonella spp. represented the biggest portion (~90%) of the microbiome. Most Bartonella spp. (n = 93) were confirmed to represent B. schoenbuchensis. In deer keds collected from humans, no Bartonella spp. were detected. Furthermore, Acinetobacter spp. were present in four samples, one of those was confirmed to represent A. baumannii. These data suggest that deer keds harbor only a very narrow spectrum of bacteria which are potentially pathogenic for animals of humans.
KW  - next generation sequencing (NGS)
KW  - one health
KW  - epidemiology
KW  - wild animals
KW  - humans
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/48686
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-486867
SN  - 1664-302X
N1  - Copyright © 2018 Regier, Komma, Weigel, Pulliainen, Göttig, Hain and Kempf. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
VL  - 9
IS  - Art. 3100
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
PB  - Frontiers Media
CY  - Lausanne
ER  -