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Ornithodoros hasei (Schulze, 1935) YUCATÁN: Pisté, Molossus rufus nigricans (Kohls et al. 1965; Hoffmann & López-Campos 2000). SINALOA: Santa Lucía, Myotis velifer velifer (Kohls et al. 1965; Hoffmann & López-Campos 2000)., Published as part of Guzmán-Cornejo, Carmen, Herrera-Mares, Angel, Robbins, Richard G. & Rebollo-Hernández, Andrea, 2019, The soft ticks (Parasitiformes: Ixodida: Argasidae) of Mexico: species, hosts, and geographical distribution, pp. 485-525 in Zootaxa 4623 (3) on page 498, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4623.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/3258613, {"references":["Schulze, P. (1935) Zur vergleichenden Anatomie der Zecken. (Das Sternale, die Mundwerkzeuge, Analfurchen und Analbeschilderung, ihre Bedeutung, Ursprunglichkeit und Luxurieren.) Zeitschrift fur Morphologie und Okologie der Tiere, 30, 1 - 40. https: // doi. org / 10.1007 / BF 00418067","Kohls, G. M., Sonenshine, D. E. & Clifford, C. M. (1965) The systematics of the subfamily Ornithodorinae (Acarina: Argasidae). II. Identification of the larvae of the Western Hemisphere and description of three new species. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 58, 331 - 364. https: // doi. org / 10.1093 / aesa / 58.3.331","Hoffmann, A. & Lopez-Campos, M. G. (2000) Biodiversidad de los acaros de Mexico. Fideicomiso Fondo para la Biodiversidad, Mexico, D. F., 230 pp."]}

International audience; We screened blood from 59 bats from French Guiana for Bartonella spp. PCRs were positive for 13.6% and culture was positive in one Noctilio albiventris and one Pteronotus parnellii, as well as in Ornithodoros hasei ticks collected from bats. Two isolated strains represent possible two new species.

International audience; In French Guiana, located on the northeastern coast of South America, bats of different species are very numerous. The infection of bats and their ticks with zoonotic bacteria, especially Rickettsia species, is so far unknown. In order to improve knowledge of these zoonotic pathogens in this French overseas department, the presence and diversity of tick-borne bacteria was investigated with molecular tools in bat ticks. In the beginning of 2013, 32 bats were caught in Saint-Jean-du-Maroni, an area close to the coast of French Guiana, and the ticks of these animals were collected. A total of 354 larvae of Argasidae soft ticks (Ornithodoros hasei) from 12 bats (Noctilio albiventris) were collected and 107 of them were analysed. DNA was extracted from the samples and quantitative real-time PCR was carried out to detect Rickettsia spp., Bartonella spp., Borrelia spp. and Coxiella burnetii. All tested samples were negative for Bartonella spp., Borrelia spp. and Coxiella burnetii. Rickettsia DNA was detected in 31 (28.9%) ticks. An almost entire (1118 base pairs long) sequence of the gltA gene was obtained after the amplification of some positive samples on conventional PCR and sequencing. A Bayesian tree was constructed using concatenated rrs, gltA, ompA, ompB, and gene D sequences. The study of characteristic sequences shows that this Rickettsia species is very close (98.3-99.8%) genetically to R. peacockii. Nevertheless, the comparative analysis of sequences obtained from gltA, ompA, ompB, rrs and gene D fragments demonstrated that this Rickettsia is different from the other members of the spotted fever group. The sequences of this new species were deposited in GenBank as Candidatus Rickettsia wissemanii. This is the first report showing the presence of nucleic acid of Rickettsia in Ornithodoros hasei ticks from South American bats. (C) 2016 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.

Ornithodoros (Alectorobius) hasei Kohls et al. (1965) recorded O. (A.) hasei from bats (Noctilio leporinus leporinus), North Manzanilla, Trinidad. Distribution: Barbuda, Brazil, Guyana, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Martinique, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Bolivia, Peru, Uruguay, St. Croix (Cruz 2001), Venezuela, Bolivia (Kohls et al. 1965), Argentina (Nava et al. 2007a), Paraguay (Nava et al. 2007b), Jamaica (Guglielmone et al. 2003), Published as part of Basu, A. K., Basu, M. & Adesiyun, A. A., 2012, A Review On Ticks (Acari: Ixodoidea: Ixodidae, Argasidae), Associated Pathogens And Diseases Of Trinidad And Tobago, pp. 39-50 in Acarologia 52 (1) on page 42, DOI: 10.1051/acarologia/20122034, http://zenodo.org/record/4667077, {"references":["Kohls G. M., Sonenshine DE, Clifford C. M. 1965 - The systemics of the subfamily Ornithodorinae (Acarina: Argasidae). II. Identification of the larvae of the Western Hemisphere and descriptions of three new species - Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am., 58 (3): 331 - 364.","Cruz J. O. de la 2001 - Patterns in the Biogeography of West Indian Ticks [Internet] - In: Woods C. A. and Sergile F. E. (Eds). Biogeography of West Indies. CRC Press. Available from (http: // www. crcnetbase. com / doi / abs / 10.1201 / 97814 20039481. ch 7)","Nava S., Venzal J. M., Diaz M. M., Mangold A. J., Guglielmone A. A. 2007 a - The Ornithodoros hasei (Schulze, 1935) (Acari: Argasidae) species group in Argentina - Syst. Appl. Acarol., 12: 27 - 30.","Nava S., Lareschi M., Rebollo C., Benitez Usher C., Beati L., Robbins R. G., Durden L. A., Mangold A. J., Guglielmone A. A. 2007 b - The ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Argasidae, Ixodidae) of Paraguay - Annals of Tropical Medicine & Parasitology, 101 (3): 255 - 270."]}