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Effect of Climate and Land Use on the Spatio-Temporal Variability of Tick-Borne Bacteria in Europe

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  • Roberto Rosà

    (Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, 38010 San Michele all’Adige, Italy)

  • Veronica Andreo

    (Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, 38010 San Michele all’Adige, Italy
    Department of Earth Observation Science, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands)

  • Valentina Tagliapietra

    (Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, 38010 San Michele all’Adige, Italy)

  • Ivana Baráková

    (Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, 38010 San Michele all’Adige, Italy
    Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84506 Bratislava, Slovakia)

  • Daniele Arnoldi

    (Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, 38010 San Michele all’Adige, Italy)

  • Heidi Christine Hauffe

    (Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, 38010 San Michele all’Adige, Italy)

  • Mattia Manica

    (Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, 38010 San Michele all’Adige, Italy)

  • Fausta Rosso

    (Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, 38010 San Michele all’Adige, Italy)

  • Lucia Blaňarová

    (Parasitological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 04001 Košice, Slovakia)

  • Martin Bona

    (Department of Anatomy, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University, 04001 Košice, Slovakia)

  • Marketa Derdáková

    (Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84506 Bratislava, Slovakia)

  • Zuzana Hamšíková

    (Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84506 Bratislava, Slovakia)

  • Maria Kazimírová

    (Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84506 Bratislava, Slovakia)

  • Jasna Kraljik

    (Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84506 Bratislava, Slovakia)

  • Elena Kocianová

    (Institute of Virology, Biomedical Research Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84505 Bratislava, Slovakia)

  • Lenka Mahríková

    (Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84506 Bratislava, Slovakia)

  • Lenka Minichová

    (Institute of Virology, Biomedical Research Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84505 Bratislava, Slovakia)

  • Ladislav Mošanský

    (Parasitological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 04001 Košice, Slovakia)

  • Mirko Slovák

    (Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84506 Bratislava, Slovakia)

  • Michal Stanko

    (Parasitological Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 04001 Košice, Slovakia)

  • Eva Špitalská

    (Institute of Virology, Biomedical Research Center, Slovak Academy of Sciences, 84505 Bratislava, Slovakia)

  • Els Ducheyne

    (Avia-GIS, Risschotlei 33, 2980 Zoersel, Belgium)

  • Markus Neteler

    (Mundialis GmbH & Co. KG, 53111 Bonn, Germany)

  • Zdenek Hubálek

    (Institute of Vertebrate Biology, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 60365 Brno, Czech Republic)

  • Ivo Rudolf

    (Institute of Vertebrate Biology, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 60365 Brno, Czech Republic)

  • Kristyna Venclikova

    (Institute of Vertebrate Biology, v.v.i., Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 60365 Brno, Czech Republic
    Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry CAS, 16206 Prague 6, Czech Republic)

  • Cornelia Silaghi

    (Comparative Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80802 Munich, Germany
    Institute of Parasitology, National Centre for Vector Entomology, Vetsuisse-Faculty, University of Zurich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
    Institute of Infectology, Friedrich-Loeffler-Institut, 17493 Greifswald, Germany)

  • Evelyn Overzier

    (Comparative Tropical Medicine and Parasitology, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, 80802 Munich, Germany)

  • Robert Farkas

    (Department of Parasitology and Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine, 1078 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Gábor Földvári

    (Department of Parasitology and Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine, 1078 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Sándor Hornok

    (Department of Parasitology and Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine, 1078 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Nóra Takács

    (Department of Parasitology and Zoology, University of Veterinary Medicine, 1078 Budapest, Hungary)

  • Annapaola Rizzoli

    (Department of Biodiversity and Molecular Ecology, Research and Innovation Centre, Fondazione Edmund Mach, 38010 San Michele all’Adige, Italy)

Abstract

The incidence of tick-borne diseases caused by Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Rickettsia spp. has been rising in Europe in recent decades. Early pre-assessment of acarological hazard still represents a complex challenge. The aim of this study was to model Ixodes ricinus questing nymph density and its infection rate with B. burgdorferi s.l., A. phagocytophilum and Rickettsia spp. in five European countries (Italy, Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary) in various land cover types differing in use and anthropisation (agricultural, urban and natural) with climatic and environmental factors (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), Normalized Difference Water Index (NDWI), Land Surface Temperature (LST) and precipitation). We show that the relative abundance of questing nymphs was significantly associated with climatic conditions, such as higher values of NDVI recorded in the sampling period, while no differences were observed among land use categories. However, the density of infected nymphs (DIN) also depended on the pathogen considered and land use. These results contribute to a better understanding of the variation in acarological hazard for Ixodes ricinus transmitted pathogens in Central Europe and provide the basis for more focused ecological studies aimed at assessing the effect of land use in different sites on tick–host pathogens interaction.

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  • Roberto Rosà & Veronica Andreo & Valentina Tagliapietra & Ivana Baráková & Daniele Arnoldi & Heidi Christine Hauffe & Mattia Manica & Fausta Rosso & Lucia Blaňarová & Martin Bona & Marketa Derdáková &, 2018. "Effect of Climate and Land Use on the Spatio-Temporal Variability of Tick-Borne Bacteria in Europe," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 15(4), pages 1-15, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:15:y:2018:i:4:p:732-:d:140731
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