Sulcascaris sulcata (Anisakidae), a pathogenic nematode of sea turtles, may cause ulcerous gastritis with different degrees of severity. Previous studies demonstrated a high prevalence of infection in the Mediterranean loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), although no data on the potential intermediate hosts of this nematode has been published thus far from the Mediterranean basin. Here, using molecular analyses, we demonstrated that the cross sections of nematode larvae observed histologically in Mediterranean mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) collected from a farm along the Tyrrhenian coast of southern Italy belong to S. sulcata. The BLAST analysis of sequences at the ITS2 region of rDNA and mtDNA cox2 gene loci here obtained from samples of two Mediterranean mussels containing nematode larvae showed 100% homology with those at the same gene loci from the adults of S. sulcata collected from the Mediterranean Sea and deposited in GenBank. To our knowledge, this study is the first to present data on a potential intermediate host of S. sulcata in the Mediterranean basin and to report a nematode parasite from the Mediterranean mussel.

The Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) as intermediate host for the anisakid Sulcascaris sulcata (Nematoda), a pathogen parasite of the Mediterranean loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) / Santoro, M.; Marchiori, E.; Palomba, M.; Uberti, B. D.; Marcer, F.; Mattiucci, S.. - In: PATHOGENS. - ISSN 2076-0817. - 9:2(2020), pp. 1-8. [10.3390/pathogens9020118]

The Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) as intermediate host for the anisakid Sulcascaris sulcata (Nematoda), a pathogen parasite of the Mediterranean loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta)

Palomba M.;Mattiucci S.
2020

Abstract

Sulcascaris sulcata (Anisakidae), a pathogenic nematode of sea turtles, may cause ulcerous gastritis with different degrees of severity. Previous studies demonstrated a high prevalence of infection in the Mediterranean loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta), although no data on the potential intermediate hosts of this nematode has been published thus far from the Mediterranean basin. Here, using molecular analyses, we demonstrated that the cross sections of nematode larvae observed histologically in Mediterranean mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) collected from a farm along the Tyrrhenian coast of southern Italy belong to S. sulcata. The BLAST analysis of sequences at the ITS2 region of rDNA and mtDNA cox2 gene loci here obtained from samples of two Mediterranean mussels containing nematode larvae showed 100% homology with those at the same gene loci from the adults of S. sulcata collected from the Mediterranean Sea and deposited in GenBank. To our knowledge, this study is the first to present data on a potential intermediate host of S. sulcata in the Mediterranean basin and to report a nematode parasite from the Mediterranean mussel.
2020
anisakid nematode; mussel parasite; mytilus galloprovincialis; sulcascaris sulcata; tyrrhenian sea
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The Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) as intermediate host for the anisakid Sulcascaris sulcata (Nematoda), a pathogen parasite of the Mediterranean loggerhead turtle (Caretta caretta) / Santoro, M.; Marchiori, E.; Palomba, M.; Uberti, B. D.; Marcer, F.; Mattiucci, S.. - In: PATHOGENS. - ISSN 2076-0817. - 9:2(2020), pp. 1-8. [10.3390/pathogens9020118]
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