Theileria annulata: Virulence and transmission from single and mixed clone infections in cattle

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 186-195

  Taylor, Louise H ^a   Welburn, Sue C ^a   Woolhouse, Mark E J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SMEAR; CATTLE; CLONE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GROWTH RATE; LYMPH NODE; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THEILERIA ANNULATA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ERYTHROCYTE COUNT; GENOTYPE; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; PARASITEMIA; THEILERIA ANNULATA; THEILERIASIS; VIRULENCE;

APICOMPLEXA; BOS TAURUS; THEILERIA; THEILERIA ANNULATA;

EID: 0036525469     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-4894(02)00017-6     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. Adamson R., Hall R. A role for matrix metalloproteinases in the pathology and attenuation of Theileria annulata infections. Parasitology Today. 13:1997;390-393.
2. Barnett S.F., Brocklesby D.W. A mild form of East Coast Fever (Theileria parva) with persistence of infection. British Veterinary Journal. 122:1966;361-370.
3. Baylis H., Megson A., Brown C.G.D., Wilkie G., Hall R. Theileria annulata infected cells produce abundant proteases whose activity is reduced by long-term cell culture. Parasitology. 105:1992;417-423.
4. Ben Miled, L., 1993. Population diversity in Theileria annulata in Tunisia, Ph.D. Thesis. University of Edinburgh.
5. Ben Miled L., Dellagi K., Bernard G., Melrose T.R., Darghouth M., Bouattour A., Kinnaird J., Shiels B., Tait A., Brown C.G.D. Genomic and phenotypic diversity of Tunisian Theileria annulata isolates. Parasitology. 108:1994;51-60.
6. Boulter N., Hall R. Immunity and vaccine development in the bovine theilerioses. Advances in Parasitology. 44:2000;41-97.
7. Brown C.G.D. Theileriidae. Taylor A.E.R., Baker J.R. In Vitro Methods for Parasite Cultivation. 1987;230-253 Academic Press, London.
8. Chiejina S.N., Street J., Wakelin D., Behnke J.M. Response of inbred mice to infection with a new isolate of Trypanosoma musculi. Parasitology. 107:1993;233-236.
9. Conze G., Campbell J.D.M., Nichani A.K., Glass E.J., Spooner R.L., Ahmed J.S. Evidence for strain specificity in cytotoxic T lymphocyte mediated, major histocompatibility complex class I dependent killing of Theileria annulata-infected cells. Parasitology Research. 84:1998;593-595.
10. Darghouth M.A., Ben Miled L., Bouattour A., Melrose T.R., Brown C.G.D., Kilani M. A preliminary study on the attenuation of Tunisian schizont-infected cell lines of Theileria annulata. Parasitology Research. 82:1996;647-655.
11. Data Analysis Products Division., 1999. S-PLUS 2000 Guide to Statistics, vol. 1. Mathsoft, Seattle.
12. Davies C.M., Webster J.P., Woolhouse M.E.J. Trade-offs in the evolution of virulence in an indirectly transmitted macroparasite. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences. 268:2001b;251-257.
13. Davies C.M., Fairbrother E., Webster J.P. Mixed strain schistosome infections of snails and the evolution of parasite virulence. Parasitology. 124:2002;31-38.
14. Dearsly A.L., Sinden R.E., Self I.A. Sexual development in malarial parasites: Gametocyte production, fertility and infectivity to the mosquito vector. Parasitology. 100:1990;368-369.
15. Diffley P., Scott J.O., Mama K., Tsen T.N.R. The rate of proliferation among African trypanosomes is a stable trait that is directly related to virulence. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 36:1987;533-540.
16. Ebert D. Experimental evolution of parasites. Science. 282:1998;1432-1435.
17. Espinoza B., Vera-Cruz J.M., Gonzalez H., Ortega E., Hernandez R. Genotype and virulence correlation within Mexican stocks of Trypanosoma cruzi isolated from patients. Acta Tropica. 70:1998;63-72.
18. Gill A.C., Cowman A.F., Stewart N.P., Kemp D.J., Timms P. Babesia bovis-molecular and biological characteristics of cloned parasite lines. Experimental Parasitology. 63:1987;180-188.
19. Graham S.P., Brown D.J., Vatansever Z., Waddington D., Taylor L.H., Nichani A.K., Campbell J.D.M., Adamson R.E., Glass E.J., Spooner R.L. Proinflammatory cytokine expression by Theileria annulata infected cell lines correlates with the pathology they cause in vivo. Vaccine. 19:2001;2932-2944.
20. Hall F.R. Antigens and immunity in Theileria annulata. Parasitology Today. 4:1988;257-261.
21. Hall R., Ilhan T., Kirvar E., Wilkie G., Preston P.M., Darghouth M., Somerville R., Adamson R. Mechanism(s) of attenuation of Theileria annulata vaccine cell lines. Tropical Medicine and International Health. 4:1999;A78-A84.
22. Hargreaves B.J., Yoeli M., Nussenzweig R.S., Walliker D., Carter R. Protective immunity induced in mice by mild strains of Plasmodium berghei yoelii against a virulent and fatal line of this plasmodium. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology. 69:1975;289-299.
23. Homan W.L., Mank T.G. Human giardiasis: Genotype linked differences in clinical symptomatology. International Journal for Parasitology. 31:2001;822-826.
24. Hooshmand Rad P. The pathogenesis of anaemia in Theileria annulata infection. Research in Veterinary Science. 20:1976;324-329.
25. Imhoof B., Schmid-Hempel P. Single-clone and mixed-clone infections versus host environment in Crithidia bombi infecting bumblebees. Parasitology. 117:1998;331-336.
26. Irvin A.D., Brown C.G.D., Burridge M.J., Cunningham M.P., Musoke A.J., Pierce M.A., Purnell R.E., Radley D.E. A pathogenic Theilerial syndrome of cattle in the Narok district of Kenya. Tropical Animal Health and Production. 4:1972;220-229.
27. Jarrett W.F.H., Crighton G.W., Pirie H.M. Theileria parva: Kinetics of replication. Experimental Parasitology. 24:1969;9-25.
28. Koch H.T., Ocama J.G.R., Munatswa F.C., Byrom B., Norval R.A.I., Spooner P.R., Conrad P.A., Irvin A.D. Isolation and characterization of bovine Theileria parasites in Zimbabwe. Veterinary Parasitology. 28:1988;19-32.
29. LauriaPires L., Teixeira A.R.L. Virulence and pathogenicity associated with diversity of Trypanosoma cruzi stocks and clones derived from Chagas' disease patients. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 55:1996;304-310.
30. Levin B.R. The evolution and maintenance of virulence in microparasites. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 2:1996;93-102.
31. Mackinnon M.J., Read A.F. Genetic relationships between parasite virulence and transmission in the rodent malaria Plasmodium chabaudi. Evolution. 53:1999a;689-703.
32. Mackinnon M.J., Read A.F. Selection for high and low virulence in the malaria parasite Plasmodium chabaudi. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B-Biological Sciences. 266:1999b;741-748.
33. Melrose, T.R., 1994. Biochemical, immunological and genetic studies of apicomplexan parasites with special reference to Theileria annulata, Ph.D. Thesis. Napier University.
34. Morzaria S.P., Dolan T.T., Norval R.A.I., Bishop R.P., Spooner P.R. Generation and characterization of cloned Theileria parva parasites. Parasitology. 111:1995;39-49.
35. Nevils M.A., Figueroa J.V., Turk J.R., Canto G.J., Le V., Ellersieck M.R., Carson C.A. Cloned lines of Babesia bovis differ in their ability to induce cerebral babesiosis in cattle. Parasitology Research. 86:2000;437-443.
36. Pipano E. Immunological aspects of Theileria annulata infection. Bulletin de l'Office Internationale des Epizootics. 81:1974;139-159.
37. Pipano E., Israel V. Absence of erythrocyte forms of Theileria annulata in calves innoculated with schizonts from a virulent field strain grown in tissue culture. Journal of Protozoology. 18(Suppl.):1971;37-37.
38. Pipano E., Weisman Y., Benado A. The virulence of four local strains of Theileria annulata. Refuah Veterinarth. 31:1974;59-63.
39. Preston P.M., Brown C.G.D., Richardson W. Cytokines inhibit the development of trophozoite infected cells of Theileria annulata and Theileria parva but enhance the proliferation of macroschizont-infected cell lines. Parasite Immunology. 14:1992;125-141.
40. Preston P.M., Jackson L.A., Sutherland I.A., Bell-Sakyi L., Wilkie G., Brown D.J., Schofield J., Melrose T.R., Sanderson A., Brown C.G.D. Theileria annulata: The expression of two novel macroschizont antigens on the surface of infected mononuclear cells differs during in vitro attenuation of a virulent cell line. Experimental Parasitology. 89:1998;228-240.
41. Radley D.E., Brown C.G.D., Burridge M.J., Cunningham M.P., Peirce M.A., Purnell R.E. East coast fever: Quantitative studies of Theileria parva in cattle. Experimental Parasitology. 36:1974;278-287.
42. Rafyi A., Maghami G., Houshmand P. Sur la virulence de Theileria annulata (Schunkowsky et Luhs, 1904) et la prémunition contre la Theilériose bovine en Iran. Bulletin de l'Office Internationale des Epizootics. 64:1965;431-446.
43. Read A.F., Taylor L.H. Within-host ecology of infectious diseases: patterns and consequences. Thompson R.C.A. Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases. 2000;59-75 Arnold, London.
44. Shiels B., McDougall C., Tait A., Brown C.G.D. Antigenic diversity of Theileria annulata macroschizonts. Veterinary Parasitology. 21:1986;1-10.
45. Shiels B.R., D'Oliveira C., Mckellar S., Miled L., Kawazu S., Hide G. Selection of diversity at putative glycosylation sites in the immunodominant merozoite piroplasm surface-antigen of Theileria parasites. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology. 72:1995;149-162.
46. Somerville R.P.T., Littlebury P., Pipano E., Brown C.G.D., Shkap V., Adamson R.E., Oliver R.A., Glass E.J., Hall F.R. Phenotypic and genotypic alterations associated with the attenuation of a Theileria annulata vaccine cell line from Turkey. Vaccine. 16:1998;569-575.
47. Sutherland I.A., Shiels B.R., Jackson L., Brown D.J., Brown C.G.D., Preston P.M. Theileria annulata: Altered gene expression and clonal selection during continuous in vitro culture. Experimental Parasitology. 83:1996;125-133.
48. Taylor L.H., Mackinnon M.J., Read A.F. Virulence of mixed-clone and single-clone infections of the rodent malaria Plasmodium chabaudi. Evolution. 52:1998;583-591.
49. Timms P., Stewart N.P., Devos A.J. Study of virulence and vector transmission of Babesia bovis by use of cloned parasite lines. Infection and Immunity. 58:1990;2171-2176.
50. van Balen M., Sabelis M.W. The dynamics of multiple infection and the evolution of virulence. American Naturalist. 146:1995;881-910.