Multi-locus microsatellite analysis supports the hypothesis of an autochthonous focus of Echinococcus multilocularis in northern Italy

International Journal for Parasitology

Volumn 39, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 837-842

  Casulli, A ^a   Bart, J M ^b   Knapp, J ^b,c   La Rosa, G ^a   Dusher, G ^d   Gottstein, B ^c   Di Cerbo, A ^e   Manfredi, M T ^e   Genchi, C ^e   Piarroux, R ^b   Pozio, E ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b Faculty of Medicine   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alps; Echinococcus multilocularis; Genetic polymorphism; Italy; Molecular epidemiology; Tandem repeated multi locus microsatellite

Indexed keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC ANALYSIS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; MAMMAL; PARASITE; POLYMORPHISM;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENE MUTATION; GENOTYPE; ITALY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; EUROPE; FOXES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; ITALY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TANDEM REPEAT SEQUENCES;

CANIDAE; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 63449111501     PISSN: 00207519     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2008.12.001     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Auer H., and Aspöck H. Die Echinokokkose (Fuchsbandwurmkrankheit) in Tirol. Ber Nat-Med Verein Innsbruck 79 (1992) 233-246
2. Auer H., and Aspöck H. Human alveolar echinococcosis and cystic echinococcosis in Austria: the recent epidemiological situation. Helminthologia 38 (2001) 3-14
3. Bart J.M., Knapp J., Gottstein B., El-Garch F., Giraudoux P., Glowatzki M.L., Berthoud H., Maillard S., and Piarroux R. EmsB, a tandem repeated multi-locus microsatellite, new tool to investigate the genetic diversity of Echinococcus multilocularis. Infect. Genet. Evol. 6 (2006) 390-400
4. Bowles J., Blair D., and McManus D.P. A molecular phylogeny of the genus Echinococcus. Parasitology 110 (1995) 317-328
5. Bretagne S., Assouline B., Vidaud D., Houin R., and Vidaud M. Echinococcus multilocularis: microsatellite in U1 snRNA genes. Exp. Parasitol. 82 (1996) 324-328
6. Casulli A., Manfredi M.T., La Rosa G., Di Cerbo A.R., Dinkel A., Romig T., Deplazes P., Genchi C., and Pozio E. Echinococcus multilocularis in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) of the Italian Alpine region: is there a focus of autochthonous transmission?. Int. J. Parasitol. 35 (2005) 1079-1083
7. Craig P.S. Epidemiology of human alveolar echinococcosis in China. Parasitol. Int. 55S (2006) 221-225
8. De Luca F., Reyes A., Veronico P., Di Vito M., Lamberti F., and De Giorni C. Characterization of the (GAAA) microsatellite region in the plant parasitic nematode Meloidogyne artiellia. Gene 26 (2002) 191-198
9. Eckert J., Conraths F.J., and Tackmann K. Echinococcosis: an emerging or re-emerging zoonosis?. Int. J. Parasitol. 30 (2000) 1283-1294
10. Eckert J., Schantz P.M., Gasser R.B., Torgerson P.R., Bessonov A.S., Movsessian S.O., Thakur A., Grimm F., and Nikogossian M.A. Geographic distribution and prevalence. In: Eckert J., Gemmell M.A., Meslin F.X., and Pawlowski Z.S. (Eds). WHO/OIE Manual on Echinococcosis in Humans and Animals: A Public Health Problem of Global Concern (2001), Office International des Epizooties, Paris 100-142
11. Eckert J., and Deplazes P. Biological, epidemiological, and clinical aspects of echinococcosis, a zoonosis of increasing concern. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 17 1 (2004) 107-135
12. Epplen C., Santos E.J., Mäueler W., van Helden P., and Epplen J.T. On simple repetitive DNA sequences and complex diseases. Electrophoresis 18 9 (1997) 1577-1585
13. Gasser R.B., and Chilton N.B. Characterisation of taeniid cestode species by PCR-RFLP of ITS2 ribosomal DNA. Acta Trop. 59 (1995) 31-40
14. Gasser R.B., Zhu X., and McManus D.P. Dideoxy fingerprinting: application to the genotyping of Echinococcus. Int. J. Parasitol. 28 (1998) 1775-1779
15. Haag K.L., Zaha A., Araujo A.M., and Gottstein B. Reduced genetic variability within coding and non-coding regions of the Echinococcus multilocularis genome. Parasitology 115 (1997) 521-529
16. Ito A., Romig T., and Takahashi K. Perspective on control options for Echinococcus multilocularis with particular reference to Japan. Parasitology 127S (2003) 159-172
17. Kern P., Bardonnet K., Renner E., Auer H., Pawlowski Z., Ammann R.W., and Vuitton D.A. European echinococcosis registry: human alveolar echinococcosis, Europe, 1982-2000. Emerg. Infect. Dis. 9 (2003) 343-349
18. Knapp J., Bart J.M., Glowatzki M.L., Ito A., Gerard S., Maillard S., Piarroux R., and Gottstein B. Assessment of microsatellite polymorphism for improving the spatial distribution tracking of Echinococcus multilocularis. J. Clin. Microbiol. 45 9 (2007) 2943-2950
19. Knapp J., Guislain M.H., Bart J.M., Raoul F., Gottstein B., Giraudoux P., and Piarroux R. Genetic diversity of Echinococcus multilocularis on a local scale. Infect. Genet. Evol. 8 (2008) 367-373
20. Manfredi M.T., Genchi C., Deplazes R., Trevisiol K., and Fraquelli C. Echinococcus multilocularis infection in red foxes in Italy. Vet. Rec. 150 (2002) 757
21. McManus D.P. Molecular discrimination of taeniid cestodes. Parasitol. Int. 55 (2006) 31-37
22. Monis P.T., Andrews R.H., and Saint C.P. Molecular biology techniques in parasite ecology. Int. J. Parasitol. 32 (2002) 551-562
23. Nakao M., Sako Y., and Ito A. Isolation of polymorphic microsatellite loci from the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. Infect. Genet. Evol. 3 (2003) 159-163
24. Okamoto M., Bessho Y., Kamiya M., Kurosawa T., and Horii T. Phylogenetic relationships within Taenia taeniaeformis variants and other taeniid cestodes inferred from the nucleotide sequence of the cytochrome c oxidase subunit I gene. Parasitol. Res. 81 (1995) 451-458
25. Posselt A. Die geographische Verbreitung des Bblasenwurmleidens insbesondere des Alveolarechinokokkus der Leber und dessen Casuistik seit 1886 (1900), Enke, Stuttgart
26. Rinder H., Rausch R.L., Takahashi K., Kopp V., Thomschke A., and Loscher T. Limited range of genetic variation in Echinococcus multilocularis. J. Parasitol. 83 (1997) 1045-1050
27. Romig T. Spread of Echinococcus multilocularis in Europe?. In: Pawlowski Z. (Ed). Cestode Zoonoses: Echinococcosis and Cysticercosis, An Emergent and Global Problem (2002), IOS Press, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 65-80
28. Romig T., Dinkel A., and Mackenstedt U. The present situation of echinococcosis in Europe. Parasitol. Int. 55S (2006) 187-191
29. Schantz P.M., von Reyn C.F., Welty T., and Schultz M.G. Echinococcosis in Arizona and New Mexico. Survey of hospital records, 1969-1974. Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg. 25 (1976) 312-317
30. Schlotterer C. Evolutionary dynamics of microsatellite DNA. Chromosoma 109 (2000) 365-371
31. Shimodaira H. An approximately unbiased test of phylogenetic tree selection. Syst. Biol. 51 (2002) 492-508
32. Shimodaira H. Approximately unbiased tests of regions using multistep-multiscale bootstrap resampling. Ann. Stat. 32 (2004) 2616-2641
33. van Herwerden L., Gasser R.B., and Blair D. ITS-1 ribosomal DNA sequence variants are maintained in different species and strains of Echinococcus. Int. J. Parasitol. 30 (2000) 157-169
34. von Nickisch-Rosenegk M., Lucius R., and Loos-Frank B. Contributions to the phylogeny of the Cyclophyllidea (Cestoda) inferred from mitochondrial 12S rDNA. J. Mol. Evol. 48 (1999) 586-596
35. Vuitton D.A., Zhou H., Bresson-Hadni S., Wang Q., Piarroux M., Raoul F., and Giraudoux P. Epidemiology of alveolar echinococcosis with particular reference to China and Europe. Parasitology 127S (2003) 87-107