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Tick- and Flea-Borne Rickettsial Emerging Zoonoses Philippe Parola, Bernard Davoust, Didier Raoult Tick- and flea-borne rickettsial emerging zoonoses Philippe Parola, Bernard Davoust, Didier Raoult To cite this version: Philippe Parola, Bernard Davoust, Didier Raoult. Tick- and flea-borne rickettsial emerging zoonoses. Veterinary Research, BioMed Central, 2005, 36 (3), pp.469-492. 10.1051/vetres:2005004. hal- 00902973 HAL Id: hal-00902973 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00902973 Submitted on 1 Jan 2005 HAL is a multi-disciplinary open access L’archive ouverte pluridisciplinaire HAL, est archive for the deposit and dissemination of sci- destinée au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents entific research documents, whether they are pub- scientifiques de niveau recherche, publiés ou non, lished or not. The documents may come from émanant des établissements d’enseignement et de teaching and research institutions in France or recherche français ou étrangers, des laboratoires abroad, or from public or private research centers. publics ou privés. Vet. Res. 36 (2005) 469–492 469 © INRA, EDP Sciences, 2005 DOI: 10.1051/vetres:2005004 Review article Tick- and flea-borne rickettsial emerging zoonoses Philippe PAROLAa, Bernard DAVOUSTb, Didier RAOULTa* a Unité des Rickettsies, CNRS UMR 6020, IFR 48, Faculté de Médecine, Université de la Méditerranée, 13385 Marseille Cedex 5, France b Direction Régionale du Service de Santé des Armées, BP 16, 69998 Lyon Armées, France (Received 30 March 2004; accepted 5 August 2004) Abstract – Between 1984 and 2004, nine more species or subspecies of spotted fever rickettsiae were identified as emerging agents of tick-borne rickettsioses throughout the world. Six of these species had first been isolated from ticks and later found to be pathogenic to humans. The most recent example is Rickettsia parkeri, recognized as a human pathogen more than 60 years after its initial isolation from ticks. A new spotted fever rickettsia, R. felis was also found to be associated with fleas and to be a human pathogen. Similarly, bacteria within the family Anaplasmataceae have been considered to be of veterinary importance only, yet three species have been implicated in human diseases in recent years, including Ehrlichia chaffeensis, the agent of human monocytic ehrlichiosis, Anaplasma phagocytophilum, the agent of human anaplasmosis (formerly known as “human granulocytic ehrlichiosis agent”, E. equi and E. phagocytophila), and finally Ehrlichia ewingii, which causes granulocytic ehrlichiosis in humans. We present here an overview of the various tick- and flea-borne rickettsial zoonoses described in the last 20 years, focusing on the ecological, epidemiological and clinical aspects. ticks / fleas / Rickettsia / Anaplasma / zoonoses Table of contents 1. Introduction...................................................................................................................................... 470 2. Emerging SFG rickettsioses............................................................................................................. 471 2.1. Tick-borne rickettsioses .......................................................................................................... 471 2.2. Flea-borne spotted fever.......................................................................................................... 473 2.3. Specific diagnosis procedures ................................................................................................. 475 2.4. Treatment ................................................................................................................................ 475 3. Human ehrlichioses and anaplasmoses............................................................................................ 475 3.1. Human monocytic ehrlichiosis (Ehrlichia chaffeensis) .......................................................... 476 3.2. Ehrlichia ewingii granulocytic ehrlichiosis ............................................................................ 480 3.3. Human granulocytic anaplasmosis (formerly human granulocytic ehrlichiosis).................... 481 3.3.1. Natural history of Anaplasma phagocytophilum ......................................................... 481 3.3.2. Epidemiological and clinical aspects........................................................................... 482 3.4. Specific diagnostic procedures................................................................................................ 484 3.5. Treatment ................................................................................................................................ 484 4. Conclusions and perspectives .......................................................................................................... 485 * Corresponding author: [email protected] 470 P. Parola et al. 1. INTRODUCTION Rickettsia rickettsii, the agent of Rocky Mountain spotted fever in the USA [126, Rickettsial diseases are zoonoses caused 154]. Interestingly, R. rickettsii was consid- by obligate intracellular bacteria grouped in ered as the only agent of tick-borne rick- the order Rickettsiales. Although the bacte- ettsioses in America throughout the 20th ria of this order were first described as short, century. Although other spotted fever group Gram-negative rods that retained basic (SFG) rickettsiae were detected from ticks fuchsin when stained by the method of there, these were considered as “non-path- Gimenez, the taxonomy of rickettsias has ogenic” rickettsiae [116, 117]. At the same undergone significant reorganization in the time, other continents were considered to last decade. For example, Coxiella burnetii, have their specific tick-borne pathogenic the agent of Q fever has recently been rickettsia such as R. conorii (in Europe and removed from Rickettsiales [117]. To date, Africa), R. sibirica (in the former USSR and three groups of diseases are still commonly China), and R. australis (in Australia) classified as rickettsial diseases. These [117]. However, between 1984 and 2004, include (i) rickettsioses due to bacteria of nine more species or subspecies of tick- the genus Rickettsia, including the spotted borne spotted fever rickettsiae were identi- fever group and the typhus group rickett- fied as emerging pathogens throughout the siae, (ii) ehrlichioses and anaplasmoses due world [116, 117]. A new spotted fever to bacteria within the family Anaplasmata- group rickettsia, R. felis was also found to ceae which has been reorganized, and be associated with fleas and to be patho- (iii) scrub typhus due to Orientia tsutsuga- genic to humans [59]. mushi [37, 58, 117, 151]. Since scrub Similarly, bacteria within the family typhus is transmitted by trombiculid mites Anaplasmataceae have long been consid- in the Asian-Pacific region, it will not been ered to be only of veterinary importance, reviewed here [151]. yet three species have been implicated in The classification within Rickettsiales is human diseases in recent years. The first continually modified as new data become human case of monocytic ehrlichiosis available, particularly those based on molec- (HME) was described in 1987 in the USA ular phylogenetic studies. However, experts and first assumed to be due to Ehrlichia in the field of rickettsiology frequently dis- canis, the agent of canine monocytic ehrli- agree over species definitions. In this review chiosis [81]. The causative agent of HME, we use currently accepted taxa, as well as Ehrlichia chaffeensis, was later isolated in names of species or subspecies proposed 1991 in the USA [34]. In 1994, human gran- recently that are based on polyphasic taxo- ulocytic ehrlichiosis was first described in nomic studies which integrate phenotypic the USA [30] and has subsequently been and phylogenetic data [49]. shown to occur in Europe [110]. The caus- Since the beginning of the 20th century, ative organism, first known as the “HGE ticks and fleas have been implicated as vec- agent” had been found to be closely related tors, reservoirs, and/or amplifiers of some to E. equi and E. phagocytophila (pathogens rickettsial bacteria recognized as agents of of horses and ruminants, respectively). human zoonoses [117]. The rat flea, Xenop- However, phylogenic studies showed that sylla cheopis, is the main vector of murine insufficient differences exist among these typhus due to Rickettsia typhi, a typhus three to support separate species designa- group rickettsia whereas rodents, mainly tions. Therefore these agents are grouped Rattus norvegicus and R. rattus, act as res- with Anaplasma spp. [37]. Currently, all ervoirs [117]. Ixodids (hard ticks) were first three are considered as a single species, implicated as vectors of spotted fever group Anaplasma phagocytophilum and the dis- rickettsioses in 1906, when the Rocky ease has now been renamed as human gran- Mountain wood tick was shown to transmit ulocytic anaplasmosis. Finally, Ehrlichia Emerging rickettsial diseases 471 ewingii, the agent of canine granulocytic dental hosts when they are bitten by ticks. ehrlichiosis, was found in 1999 to cause dis- When transmitted to people, the pathogenic ease in humans [24]. rickettsiae multiply in endothelial cells Here we present an overview of the var- causing a vasculitis which is responsible for ious tick- and flea borne rickettsial zoon- the clinical and laboratory abnormalities of oses described in the last 20 years, focusing rickettsioses [117, 150]. Ecological charac- on the ecological, epidemiological and clin- teristics of the tick vectors are keys for the ical aspects. epidemiology of tick-borne diseases
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