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Recovery of a phytopathogenic bacterium Lonsdalea quercina from a lesser horseshoe bat in Moravian karst, Czech Republic

KOVACOVA, Veronika, Miroslav KOLARIK, Hana BANDOUCHOVA, Tomáš BARTONIČKA, Hana BERKOVÁ et. al.

Basic information

Original name

Recovery of a phytopathogenic bacterium Lonsdalea quercina from a lesser horseshoe bat in Moravian karst, Czech Republic

Authors

KOVACOVA, Veronika (203 Czech Republic), Miroslav KOLARIK (203 Czech Republic), Hana BANDOUCHOVA (203 Czech Republic), Tomáš BARTONIČKA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Hana BERKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), B. HAVELKOVA (203 Czech Republic), E. HRUDOVA (203 Czech Republic), L. KOHOUTOVA (203 Czech Republic), Natália MARTÍNKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Jan ZUKAL (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Jiri PIKULA (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

Forest Pathology, 2018, 1437-4781

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

Impact factor

Impact factor: 1.434

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/18:00102026

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

UT WoS

000425466000005

Keywords in English

patholog; bacterium; Rhinolophus vector
Změněno: 2/5/2019 13:38, Mgr. Tereza Miškechová

Abstract

V originále

While bats are important reservoirs and vectors of pathogenic agents with zoonotic potential, their skin- associated microbial community could harbour organisms relevant to bat health as well as those associated with bat habitats in general. A total of 140 skin swabs collected from bats in the Czech Republic were cultured for bacteria from 2012 to 2013. A phytopathogen, isolated from a lesser horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus hipposideros), was identified as Lonsdalea quercina by MALDI- TOF (matrix-assisted laser desorption–ionization time- of- flight mass spectrometry) and characterized as Lonsdalea quercina subsp. britannica using phylogenetic analysis based on a 16S rRNA and two housekeeping (infB and atpD) genes. Lonsdalea quercina subsp. britannica is a gram- negative facultative anaerobic bacterium reported to cause bark canker and drippy nut disease in oaks. Our finding provides evidence of Lonsdalea quercina in the Czech Republic (Moravian Karst). As the lesser horseshoe bat is a sedentary species, it may bio- indicate the presence of the phytopathogenic bacterium in the broadleaved forests of the habitat of pathogen recovery. We therefore suggest active surveillance of the area of the Moravian Karst for signs of oak disease and/or decline.