Table 2.
Morphological identification | MALDI-TOF MS identification (score) | Molecular identification (% similarity with the indicated GenBank sequence) of:a |
|
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Ticke | Bacteria | ||
D. marginatus | D. marginatus (1.83) | D. marginatus (99.3% AM410570.1) | |
D. marginatus | D. marginatus (1.798) | D. marginatus (99.4% AM410570.1) | |
D. marginatus | D. marginatus (1.799) | D. marginatus (99.4% AM410570.1) | R. slovacad, R. raoultiid |
R. sanguineus | R. sanguineus (1.957) | R. sanguineus (99.1% JX206975.1) | R. massiliaed |
I. ricinus | I. ricinus (1,737) | I. ricinus (99.5% JN248424.1) | |
Damaged | I. ricinus (1,376) | Not obtainedc | |
I. ricinus | I. ricinus (1.321) | I. ricinus (99.3% JN248424.1) | |
Rhipicephalus sp. | Not identifiedb | R. bursa (100% AM410572.1) | |
Ixodes sp. | I. ricinus (1.308) | I. ricinus (99.2% JM248424.1) | B. garinii (99.7% JN828689.1) |
Rhipicephalus sp. | R. sanguineus (2.117) | R. sanguineus (99.2% AY559843.1) | R. conoriid |
I. ricinus | I. ricinus (1.728) | I. ricinus (99.7% JN248424.1) | A. phagocytophilumd |
I. ricinus | I. ricinus (1.823) | I. ricinus (99.2% JN248424.1) | |
I. ricinus | I. ricinus (1.641) | I. ricinus (99.06% AY945481.1) | Incompletely described bacterium (97.6% AY776167.1), B. miyamotoi (100% FJ874925.1) |
I. ricinus | I. ricinus (1.668) | I. ricinus (100% JN248424.1) | |
D. marginatus | D. marginatus (1.83) | D. marginatus (99.3% AM410570.1) | |
D. marginatus | D. marginatus (1.798) | D. marginatus (99.4% AM410570.1) | R. slovacad, R. raoultiid |
D. marginatus | D. marginatus (1.799) | D. marginatus (99.4% AM410570.1) | R. massiliaed |
DNA extracted from laboratory colonies of uninfected ticks was used as a negative control. DNA extracted from Rickettsia montanensis, Bartonella elizabethae, Borrelia crocidurae, and Anaplasma phagocytophilum was used as a positive control.
No R. bursa spectrum was available in our MALDI-TOF MS database.
After two attempts.
qPCR.
By 12S RNA sequencing.