Pigs as natural hosts of Dientamoeba fragilis genotypes found in humans

Emerging Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 838-841

  Cacciò, Simone M ^a   Sannella, Anna Rosa ^a   Manuali, Elisabetta ^b   Tosini, Fabio ^a   Sensi, Marco ^b   Crotti, Daniele ^b   Pozio, Edoardo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ZOOPROFILATTICO SPERIMENTALE DELL UMBRIA E DELLE MARCHE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RNA 18S; RNA 5.8S;

ARTICLE; DIENTAMOEBA; DIENTAMOEBIASIS; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; MICROSCOPY; NATURAL HOST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SWINE; TROPHOZOITE;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DIENTAMOEBA; DIENTAMOEBIASIS; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; FECES; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES;

EID: 84859877653     PISSN: 10806040     EISSN: 10806059     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3201/eid1805.111093     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Johnson EH, Windsor JJ, Clark CG. Emerging from obscurity: biological, clinical, and diagnostic aspects of Dientamoeba fragilis. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2004;17:553-70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/ CMR.17.3.553-570.2004
2. Barratt JL, Harkness J, Marriott D, Ellis JT, Stark D. A review of Dientamoeba fragilis carriage in humans: several reasons why this organism should be considered in the diagnosis of gastrointestinal illness. Gut Microbes. 2011;2:3-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.4161/ gmic.2.1.14755
3. Stark D, Barratt J, Roberts T, Marriott D, Harkness J, Ellis J. A review of the clinical presentation of dientamoebiasis. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2010;82:614-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.2010.09-0478
4. Lankester F, Kiyang JA, Bailey W, Unwin S. Dientamoeba fragilis: initial evidence of pathogenicity in the western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla gorilla). J Zoo Wildl Med. 2010;41:350-2. http://dx.doi. org/10.1638/2009-0190.1
5. Barratt JL, Harkness J, Marriott D, Ellis JT, Stark D. The ambiguous life of Dientamoeba fragilis: the need to investigate current hypotheses on transmission. Parasitology. 2011;138:557-72. http://dx.doi. org/10.1017/S0031182010001733
6. Johnson JA, Clark CG. Cryptic genetic diversity in Dientamoeba fragilis. J Clin Microbiol. 2000;38:4653-4.
7. Windsor JJ, Macfarlane L, Clark CG. Internal transcribed spacer dimorphism and diversity in Dientamoeba fragilis. J Eukaryot Microbiol. 2006;53:188-92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.15507408.2006.00092.x
8. Stark D, Phillips O, Peckett D, Munro U, Marriott D, Harkness J, et al. Gorillas are a host for Dientamoeba fragilis: an update on the life cycle and host distribution. Vet Parasitol. 2008;151:21-6. http:// dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2007.10.002
9. Windsor JJ, Johnson EH. Dientamoeba fragilis: the unflagellate human flagellate. Br J Biomed Sci. 1999;56:293-306.
10. Crotti D, Sensi M, Crotti S, Grelloni V, Manuali E. Dientamoeba fragilis in swine population: a preliminary investigation. Vet Parasitol. 2007;145:349-51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vetpar.2007.01.006
11. Verweij JJ, Mulder B, Poell B, van Middelkoop D, Brienen EA, van Lieshout L. Real-time PCR for the detection of Dientamoeba fragilis in fecal samples. Mol Cell Probes. 2007;21:400-4. http://dx.doi. org/10.1016/j.mcp.2007.05.006
12. Vandenberg O, Peek R, Souayah H, Dediste A, Buset M, Scheen R, et al. Clinical and microbiological features of dientamoebiasis in patients suspected of suffering from a parasitic gastrointestinal illness: a comparison of Dientamoeba fragilis and Giardia lamblia infections. Int J Infect Dis. 2006;10:255-61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j. ijid.2005.05.011
13. Bart A, van der Heijden HM, Greve S, Speijer D, Landman WJ, van Gool T. Intragenomic variation in the internal transcribed spacer 1 region of Dientamoeba fragilis as a molecular epidemiological marker. J Clin Microbiol. 2008;46:3270-5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.00680-08