期刊名称：Annals of Agricultural and Environmental Medicine
印刷版ISSN：1232-1966
电子版ISSN：1898-2263
出版年度：2015
卷号：22
期号：1
页码：51-54
DOI：10.5604/12321966.1141394
出版社：Institute of Agricultural Medicine in Lublin
摘要：Human infection by Babesia microti has been recognized as an emerging zoonosis with important public health implicationsworldwide. In Europe the reported cases of human babesiosis have been attributed mostly to B. divergens infection, withonly sporadic cases of the disease caused by B. microti or B. venatorum. This study, based on molecular methods (PCR, R-TPCR, DNA sequencing and phylogenetic analysis), reveals for the first time in Poland, asymptomatic infection with B. microtiin immunocompetent healthy individuals working in forest ecosystems. Of the 58 professional foresters examined, two(3.4%) were identified as B. microti-positive by specific PCR. The results of this study also provide strong evidence that ineastern Poland, where tick-borne diseases (TBDs) are endemic, there is a potential risk of acquiring human babesiosis dueto zoonotic B. microti parasites commonly found in rodents and I. ricinus ticks. The potential public health importance ofthis finding is discussed
