Abstract
During the years 1993 to 1995,a total of 3,480 ticks were collected by flagging on vegetation and from field rodents in various sites spread throughout the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. These were identified as three genera and 11 species as follows : Amblyomma testudinarium, Haemaphysalis flava, H. formosensis, H. hystricis, H. kitaokai, H. longicornis, H. megaspinosa, H. sp., Ixodes nipponensis, I. ovatus and I. turdus. Of these species, H. formosensis, H. hystricis and H. sp. were newly recorded in this area. H. flava, H. formosensis and H. longicornis were the predominant species. In a review of the present and other previous reports, four genera and 16 species of ticks were summarized from the mainland of Kagoshima Prefecture. In L-929 cell culture, five strains of unknown spotted fever group rickettsiae were isolated from I. ovatus adults. In isolation of Borrelia spirochetes with BSK culture, two larval and one nymphal I. ovatus and one Apodemus speciosus mouse were positive for Borrelia japonica.
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