期刊
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR PARASITOLOGY-PARASITES AND WILDLIFE
卷 10, 期 -, 页码 132-137出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijppaw.2019.08.008
关键词
Didelphis sp.; Sporocyst; ITS1; Surface antigen; DNA
资金
- CAPES (Coordination for Higher Education Staff Development)
- Brazilian Research Council (CNPq) [308795/2015-6]
- CNPq
Most reported isolates of Sarcocystis spp. derived from Brazilian opossums (Didelphis sp.) have genetic characteristics distinct from the known species of Sarcocystis, but behave similarly as Sarcocystis falcatula, as they are infective to budgerigars. In previous studies, these Brazilian isolates, classified as Sarcocystis falcatula-like, were originated from South and Southeast regions of Brazil. In the current work, we aimed to culture and to perform multilocus sequence analysis of Sarcocystis sp. derived from a Brazilian opossum (D. aurita/D. marsupialis) that inhabited the city of Salvador, Bahia, in the Northeast of Brazil. The parasite was isolated in Vero cells, referred here as Sarco-BA1, and propagated in avian cells (DF-1). Molecular analysis of Sarco-BA1 revealed that the nucleotide sequence of the internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS1) of the rDNA was identical to all isolates (n = 19) of Sarcocystis spp. reported in two studies from South and Southeast regions of the country. Two budgerigars were inoculated with 10 and 1000 sporocysts of Sarco-BA1, respectively, and developed acute sarcocystosis, showing that the parasite behaves like S. falcatula. It was interesting to observe that Sarco-BA1 had almost identical ITS1 and SAG sequences to all 16 isolates of S. falcatula-like recently described in Magellanic penguins (Spheniscus magellanicus) rescued on the coast of Espirito Santo state, Brazil. Our results suggest that Sarco-BA1 and S. falcatula-like may represent a single species of Sarcocystis. Propagation of the parasite in a permanent avian cell line significantly improved the yield of merozoites in cell culture. To our knowledge, this is the first molecular study and in vitro isolation of S. falcatula-like derived from Northeastern Brazil. Studies are under way to determine the infectivity of Sarco-BA1 to other animal species, as well as to investigate serological cross-reactivity among Sarco-BA1, S. neurona and related species.
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