Leishmania species: Detection and identification by nested PCR assay from skin samples of rodent reservoirs

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 126, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 552-556

  Akhavan, Amir Ahmad ^a   Mirhendi, Hossein ^a   Khamesipour, Ali ^b   Alimohammadian, Mohammad Hossein ^c   Rassi, Yavar ^a   Bates, Paul ^d   Kamhawi, Shaden ^e   Valenzuela, Jesus G ^e   Arandian, Mohammad Hossein ^a   Abdoli, Hamid ^a   Jalali zand, Niloufar ^a   Jafari, Reza ^a   Shareghi, Niloufar ^a   Ghanei, Maryam ^a   Yaghoobi Ershadi, Mohammad Reza ^a  

^a TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b TEHRAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c PASTEUR INSTITUTE OF IRAN   (Iran)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

Cutaneous leishmaniasis; Iran; Leishmania gerbilli; Leishmania major; Leishmania turanica; Nested PCR; Rhombomys opimus; Rodent

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; PRIMER DNA; PROTOZOAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GERBIL; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIA GERBILLI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TURANICA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE VECTOR; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS; RODENT; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; GENETICS; IRAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; PARASITOLOGY; RODENT DISEASES; SKIN; VETERINARY;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; ELECTROPHORESIS, AGAR GEL; GERBILLINAE; IRAN; LEISHMANIA; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RODENT DISEASES; SKIN;

GERBILLINAE; LEISHMANIA GERBILLI; LEISHMANIA MAJOR; LEISHMANIA TURANICA; RHOMBOMYS OPIMUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 78049394003     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2010.06.003     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Abdalla N.M., Eldosh A.A., Abdulgani A.M., Yusif B.E., Magzoub M.M. Typing and Characterization of leishmania sub-clinical isolates from Nuba Mountain, West of Sudan. Infection Genetic and Evolution 2003, 2(4):277.
2. Ben-Ismail R., Smith D.F., Ready P.D., Ayadi A., Gramiccia M., Ben-Osman A., Ben-Rachid M.S. Sporadic cutaneous leishmaniasis in north Tunisia: identification of the causative agent as Leishmania infantum by the use of a diagnostic deoxyribonucleic acid prob. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1992, 86:508-510.
3. Dubrovsky Y. Biology of Great Gerbil - The Principal Carrier of the Great of Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis. WHO Traveling Seminar on Leishmaniasis Control 1979, Ministry of Health, Moscow.
4. Edrissian Gh., Zovein Z., Nadim A. A simple technique for presentation of smears from the ear of Rhombomys opimus for the detection of leishmanial infection. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1982, 76:706-707.
5. Etemad, E., 1978. Mammals of Iran. Rodents and Their Identification Keys, vol. 1. National society of Guardian ship of Natural Resources and Human Environment, Tehran.
6. Evans D. UNDP World Bank/WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases 1989, World Health Organization, Geneva.
7. Faber W.R., Oskam L., Van Gool T., Kroon N.C.M., Knegt-Junk K.J., Hofwegen H., Van Der Wal A.C., Kager P.A. Value of diagnostic techniques for cutaneous leishmaniasis. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology 2003, 49(1):70-74.
8. Gramiccia M., Gradoni L. The current status of zoonotic leishmaniases and approaches to disease control. International Journal for Parasitology 2005, 35:1169-1180.
9. Hajjaran H., Mohebali M., Alimoradi S., Abaei M.R., Edrissian Gh.H. Isolation and characterization of pathogenic Leishmania turanica from Nesokia indica (Rodentia, Muridae) by PCR-RFLP and ITS1 sequencing in Iran. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 2009, 103:1177-1179.
10. Hatam G.R., Riyad M., Bichichi M., Hejazi S.H., Guessous-Idrissi N., Ardehali S. Isoenzyme characterization of Iranian Leishmania isolates from cutaneous leishmaniasis. Iranian Journal of Science and Technology, Transaction A 2005, 29:65-70.
11. Ibrahim M.E., Smith A.J., Ali M.H., Barker D.C., Kharazmi A. The polymerase chain reaction can reveal the occurrence of naturally mixed infections with Leishmania parasites. Acta Tropica 1994, 57:327-332.
12. Mohebali M., Javadian E., Yaghoobi-Ershadi M.R., Akhavan A.A., Hajjaran H., Abaei M.R. Characterization of leishmania infection in rodents from endemic areas of Islamic Republic of Iran. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal 2004, 10:591-599.
13. Parvizi P., Mauricio I., Aransay A.M., Miles M.A., Ready P.D. First detection of Leishmania major in peridomestic Phlebotomus papatasi from Isfahan province, Iran: comparison of nested PCR of nuclear ITS ribosomal DNA and semi-nested PCR of minicircle kinetoplast DNA. Acta Tropica 2005, 93:75-83.
14. Parvizi P., Ready P.D. Nested PCRs and sequencing of nuclear ITS-rDNA fragments detects three Leishmania species of gerbils in sandflies from Iranian foci of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis. Tropical Medicine and International Health 2008, 13:1159-1171.
15. Parvizi P., Moradi Gh., Akbari Gh., Farahmand M., Ready P.D., Piazak N., Assmar M., Amirkhani A. PCR detection and sequencing of parasite ITS-rDNA gene from reservoir host of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in central Iran. Parasitology Research 2008, 103:1289-1295.
16. Rassi Y., Abai M.R., Javadian E., Rafizadeh S., Imamian H., Mohebali M., Fateh M., Hajjaran H., Ismaili M. Molecular study on vectors and reservoir hosts of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Central of Iran. Bulletin de la Societe de Pathologie Exotique 2008, 101:425-428.
17. Sambrook J., Russel D.W. Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual 2001, Cold Spring Harbor Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, New York. third ed.
18. Shahbazi F., Shahabi S., Kazemi B., Mohebali M., Abadi A.R., Zare Z. Evaluation of PCR assay in diagnosis and identification of cutaneous leishmaniasis: a comparison with the parasitological methods. Parasitology Research 2008, 103:1159-1162.
19. Strelkova M.V. Progress in studies on Central Asian foci of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis a review. Folia Parasitologica 1996, 43:1-6.
20. Strelkova M.V., Eliseev L.N., Ponirovsky E.N., Dergacheva T.L., Annacharyeva D.K., Erokhin P.I., Evans D.A. Mixed leishmanal infection in Rhombomys opimus: a key to the persistence of Leishmanha major from one transmission season to the next. Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology 2001, 95:811-819.
21. Yaghoobi-Ershadi M.R., Javadian E. Epidemiological study of reservoir hosts in an endemic area of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 1996, 74:587-590.
22. Yaghoobi-Ershadi M.R., Akhavan A.A., Mohebali M. Meriones libycus and Rhombomys opimus (Rodentia:gerbillidae) are the main reservoir hosts in a new focus of zoonotic cutaneous leishmaniasis in Iran. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1996, 90:503-504.
23. Yaghoobi-Ershadi M.R., Akhavan A.A., Zahraei-Ramazani A.R., Abai M.R., Ebrahimi B., Vafaei-Nezhad R., Hanafi-Bojd A.A., Jafari R. Epidemiological study in a new focus of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal 2003, 9:816-826.
24. Yaghoobi-Ershadi M.R., Akhavan A.A., Zahraei-Ramazani A.R., Abai M.R., Ebrahimi B., Vafaei-Nezhad R., Hanafi-Bojd A.A., Jafari R. Letter to editor. Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal 2004, 10:1.