During a survey carried out to define the occurrence of Echinococcus granulosus in cattle bred in the province of Rieti (Central Italy), molecular diagnostics (PCR amplification and sequencing of a partial region of the mitochondrial C01 gene) showed that 6/10 positive bovines harboured hydatid cysts (No.=16) genetically identical (95.8-100%) to the Indian buffalo genotype G3. As far the location of the 16 cysts, 11 of them were found in the lungs of three animals, whereas 5 cysts were in the liver of three parasitized hosts. The occurrence of genotype G3 in 60% of parasitized bovines living in an area never studied before provides more definite evidence about the existence of the strain in this region, and proves that cattle have to be considered a non-accidental host.

Occurrence of the G3 Indian buffalo strain of echinococcus granulosus in cattle / P., Calderini; Gabrielli, Simona; Bernardi, Albertina; G., Grifoni; Busi, Marina; T., Petouchoff; Cancrini, Gabriella. - In: PARASSITOLOGIA. - ISSN 0048-2951. - STAMPA. - 49:4(2007), pp. 215-217.

Occurrence of the G3 Indian buffalo strain of echinococcus granulosus in cattle

GABRIELLI, SIMONA;BERNARDI, Albertina;BUSI, MARINA;CANCRINI, Gabriella
2007

Abstract

During a survey carried out to define the occurrence of Echinococcus granulosus in cattle bred in the province of Rieti (Central Italy), molecular diagnostics (PCR amplification and sequencing of a partial region of the mitochondrial C01 gene) showed that 6/10 positive bovines harboured hydatid cysts (No.=16) genetically identical (95.8-100%) to the Indian buffalo genotype G3. As far the location of the 16 cysts, 11 of them were found in the lungs of three animals, whereas 5 cysts were in the liver of three parasitized hosts. The occurrence of genotype G3 in 60% of parasitized bovines living in an area never studied before provides more definite evidence about the existence of the strain in this region, and proves that cattle have to be considered a non-accidental host.
2007
cattle; cytochrome c oxidase subunit (co1) gene; echinococcus granulosus; g3 strain; italy
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Occurrence of the G3 Indian buffalo strain of echinococcus granulosus in cattle / P., Calderini; Gabrielli, Simona; Bernardi, Albertina; G., Grifoni; Busi, Marina; T., Petouchoff; Cancrini, Gabriella. - In: PARASSITOLOGIA. - ISSN 0048-2951. - STAMPA. - 49:4(2007), pp. 215-217.
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