Gracias Nelly,

Pregunté en Sanidad por los análisis de Babesias, Ehrlichias y
Bartonellas en la garrapata. Me dijeron que lo intentarían aunque no
estaba en su protocolo. De momento solo han llegado los resultados de
Borrelia y Rickettsias que es lo que si estába en su protocolo, y
realmente no espero que vayan a hacer más...

Cuando me llamaron de Sanidad para decirme los resultados, me
comentaron que casi todas las garrapatas procedentes de la zona donde
me infecté yo hace 15 años estaban resultando positivas y casi todas
habían sido recogidas en niños.

Miguel


--- En lyme_y_otras_zoonosis_cronicas_espanol@yahoogroups.com, "Nelly
Pointis" <janel@p...> escribió:
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> Miguel,
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> Has leido este estudio?
>
> Me alegro que la garrapata salio negativa para borrelia y
rickettsia, que tal de las Babesias et Thelerias?
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> Nelly
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>
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstra\
ct&list_uids=16684356&query_hl=12&itool=pubmed_docsum
>
> BMC Vet Res. 2006 May 9;2(1):16 [Epub ahead of print]
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> Molecular diagnosis of Theileria and Babesia species infecting
> cattle in Northern Spain using reverse line blot macroarrays.
>
> Garcia-Sanmartin J, Nagore D, Garcia-Perez AL, Juste RA, Hurtado A.
>
> ABSTRACT:
> BACKGROUND: Piroplasmosis in cattle is caused by tick-borne
> haemoprotozoan parasites of the genera Theileria and Babesia. Molecular
> detection techniques offer higher sensitivity and specificity than
> microscopy examination methods and serological tests. A reverse line
> blot (RLB) macroarray that included generic and species-specific probes
> for Theileria annulata, Theileria buffeli, Babesia bovis, Babesia
> bigemina, Babesia divergens and Babesia major was used to study the
> presence and identity of the piroplasm species infecting 263 bovine
> blood samples from 79 farms, most of them in Northern Spain. Microscopy
> examination of blood smears and haematology were also performed
whenever
> possible to identify animals with parasitaemia. RESULTS: RLB
> hybridisation identified infection in 54.0% of the
> samples, whereas only 28.8% were positive by microscopy examination.
The
> most frequently found species was T. buffeli, present in 42.6% of the
> samples. T. annulata was found in 22 samples (8.4%) from 12 farms,
> including 9 farms (14 samples) located in Northern Spain where presence
> of the vector is not very common. Babesia infections were less
> frequently detected: B. major was found in 3.0% of the samples, B.
> bigemina in 2.7%, B. bovis in 2.3% and B. divergens in 1.1%. Mixed
> infections were detected in 14 samples, accounting for six different
> combinations of species.
> CONCLUSIONS: This is the first report in which B. major and B.
> divergens have been detected in Spain using molecular identification
> techniques and the first time that B. bovis has been detected in
> Northern Spain. The detection of T. annulata in Northern Spain suggests
> that the distribution of Mediterranean theileriosis might be changing.
> Samples with positive RLB hybridisation but negative microscopy had
> haematology values within the normal ranges suggesting that they
> corresponded to chronic carriers that may serve as reservoirs of the
> infection. In this sense, sensitive and specific laboratorial tests
like
> RLB that clearly identify the parasite and can detect subclinical
> infections are essential to establish good control measures.
>
> PMID: 16684356 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
>