Anaplasma phagocytophilum Infection in Cattle in France

K. Matsumoto (1) , G. Joncour (2) , B. Davoust (3) , Pierre-Hugues Pitel (4, 5) , A. Chauzy , E. Collin (6) , H. Morvan , N. Vassallo (7) , P. Brouqui (8)

1 URPE - Unité des Rickettsies et pathogènes émergents
2 Groupe Vétérinaire de Callac
3 MEPHI - Microbes évolution phylogénie et infections
4 LABÉO - LABÉO, Pôle d’analyses et de recherche de Normandie
5 Laboratoire Frank Duncombe
6 UR EFNO - Écosystèmes forestiers
7 University of Malta [Malta]
8 PTPIT - Pathologies transmissibles et pathologies infectieuses tropicales

Anaplasma phagocytophilum is the agent of pasture fever or tick-borne fever, a disease of ruminants and humans in the United States and in Europe. Although several hundred cases have been suspected to occur in cattle in France, none has yet been microbiologically confirmed. We report the first identification of A. phagocytophilum 16S RNA gene sequence in a case of TBF in France. This indicates that the diagnosis of tick-borne fever should be also evoked in cattle exposed to Ixodes ticks in France.

Domaines: Médecine vétérinaire et santé animale

K. Matsumoto, G. Joncour, B. Davoust, Pierre-Hugues Pitel, A. Chauzy, et al.. Anaplasma phagocytophilum Infection in Cattle in France. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2006, 1078 (1), pp.491-494. ⟨10.1196/annals.1374.092⟩. ⟨hal-03432748⟩