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Static and dynamic systems in Rickettsia slovaca life cycle evaluated by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Olivier Sparagano

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Abstract

Quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction was used to characterize the growth of Rickettsia slovaca, a tick-borne pathogen transmitted by Dermacentor reticulatus and D. marginatus ticks, in static (L929 and Vero cells) and dynamic (D. marginatus and Ixodes ricinus ticks) cultivation systems. The highest points of bacterial multiplication and the time-spans between the inoculum and the maximum of rickettsial copies were increased in consecutive order from eukaryotic cells, I. ricinus to D. marginatus systems. In dynamic system, multiplication maximum of R. slovaca was achieved 9 days earlier in I. ricinus; however, the number of rickettsial DNA copies was ~3.6×106 more in D. marginatus. © 2010 Blackwell Verlag GmbH.

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Author(s): Špitalská E, Sparagano O, Boldiš V

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

Year: 2010

Volume: 57

Issue: 1-2

Pages: 70-71

Print publication date: 23/04/2010

ISSN (print): 1865-1674

ISSN (electronic): 1865-1682

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1865-1682.2010.01104.x

DOI: 10.1111/j.1865-1682.2010.01104.x

PubMed id: 20537110

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