Combined morphology and DNA-barcoding to identify Plagiorhynchus cylindraceus cystacanths in Atelerix algirus

Garcia-Salguero, Alejandro; Delgado-Serra, Sofía; Solà, Jéssica; Negre, Nieves; Miranda, Miguel Ángel; Paredes-Esquivel, Claudia

doi:10.1007/s00436-019-06299-6

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“…e other studies from around the world identified several other acanthocephalan species from hedgehog including Moniliformis saudis [16,17], Plagiorhynchus cylindraceus [18], Moniliformis cryptosaudi [19], and Oliganthorhynchus erinacei [20]. Unlike other isolated species of acanthocephalan from hedgehogs, in the present study, M. ingens with the ability to infect of humans was isolated.…”

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Morphological and Molecular Descriptions of Macracanthorhynchus ingens (Acanthocephala: Oligacanthorhynchidae) Collected from Hedgehogs in Iran

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Kareshk

Darvishi

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases

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Aim. Limited data exist on acanthocephalan infections of hedgehogs in the world. Our objective was to investigate the prevalence and distribution of Macracanthorhynchus ingens infection in hedgehogs between August 2021 and March 2022 (n = 30) in the east of Iran. Methods. At first, infection with M. ingens was diagnosed based on morphologic features of the adults such as body length, proboscis, and hooks. Spindle-shaped eggs (mean length, 99.1 microns; mean width, 60.1 microns) were obtained from the body cavity of gravid female specimens. Results. The molecular analysis based on 18S rDNA and COX 1 genes confirmed the morphological identification of isolated M. ingens. The prevalence of M. ingens in our sample was 13.3% with 1–10 worms per infected host. Conclusion. In this study, we identify M. ingens as zoonotic species in hedgehog carcasses for the first time that passed eggs and adult worms, indicating parasite maturation and reproduction. There are a few studies on acanthocephalans in Iran. Therefore, more comparative studies are needed to determine the status of these species.

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Morphological and Molecular Descriptions of Macracanthorhynchus ingens (Acanthocephala: Oligacanthorhynchidae) Collected from Hedgehogs in Iran

Najjari

Kareshk

Darvishi

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Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Infectious Diseases

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“…is sister to a clade formed by two species of the subgenus Prosthorhynchus : P . ( Prosthorhynchus ) transversus is a common parasite of Passeriformes from Eurasia, and P. ( Prosthorhynchus ) cylindraceus (Goeze, 1782) is a generalist parasite with a wide host spectrum because it has been found in Passeriformes, Charadriiformes and birds of prey from Eurasia, North America, Australia and South Africa (Schmidt & Kuntz, 1966; Yamaguti, 1963; Amin et al ., 1999; Smales, 2002; Dimitrova, 2009; Lisitsyana, 2010; Garcia-Salguero et al ., 2019). The sister relationships among the three species of Plagiorhynchus received strong bootstrap support (99%) and Bayesian posterior probabilities (1.0).…”

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Morphological and molecular data on a new species ofPlagiorhynchusLühe, 1911 (Acanthocephala: Plagiorhynchidae) from the long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) from northern Mexico

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A new species of the genus Plagiorhynchus Lühe, 1911 from the intestine of the long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) from northern Mexico is described. Plagiorhynchus (Plagiorhynchus) aznari n. sp. is morphologically distinguished from other congeneric species from the Americas by having a trunk expanded anteriorly and a cylindrical proboscis, armed with 19 longitudinal rows of hooks, with 14–15 hooks each row. Nearly complete sequences of the small subunit and large subunit of the nuclear ribosomal DNA of the new species were determined and compared with available sequences from GenBank. Phylogenetic analyses inferred from the two molecular markers consistently showed that P. (Plagiorhynchus) aznari n. sp. is closely related to P. (Plagiorhynchus) allisonae, and this clade is sister to a clade formed by P. (Prosthorhynchus) transversus and P. (Prosthorhynchus) cylindraceus from Plagiorhynchidae. The new species represents the second record of the genus in Mexico and the fourth species in the Americas. The phylogenetic relationships among the members of the order Polymorphida in this study provide significant insights into the evolution of ecological associations between parasites and their definitive hosts. Our analyses suggest that the colonization of marine mammals, fish-eating birds and waterfowl in Polymorphidae might have occurred independently, from a common ancestor of Centrorhynchidae and Plagiorhynchidae that colonized terrestrial birds and mammals.

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“…It is the most common mammal species hospitalised at the COFIB and its diet mainly consists of insects and snails. Most hedgehog fatalities at the centre are due to another gastropod-borne lungworm, Crenosoma striatum [14].…”

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Angiostrongylus cantonensis in North African hedgehogs as vertebrate hosts, Mallorca, Spain, October 2018

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In October 2018, two Atelerix algirus hedgehogs were admitted to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Hospital in Mallorca (Balearic Islands, Spain) with signs of acute neurological disease. Necropsy detected immature, fully developed nematodes in the subarachnoid space of both hedgehogs, including a gravid female worm. DNA-based molecular tools confirmed the nematode as Angiostrongylus cantonensis , an important aetiological agent of eosinophilic meningitis in humans. So far this zoonotic parasite in has not been reported in western European wildlife.

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Combined morphology and DNA-barcoding to identify Plagiorhynchus cylindraceus cystacanths in Atelerix algirus

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Morphological and Molecular Descriptions of Macracanthorhynchus ingens (Acanthocephala: Oligacanthorhynchidae) Collected from Hedgehogs in Iran

Morphological and Molecular Descriptions of Macracanthorhynchus ingens (Acanthocephala: Oligacanthorhynchidae) Collected from Hedgehogs in Iran

Morphological and molecular data on a new species ofPlagiorhynchusLühe, 1911 (Acanthocephala: Plagiorhynchidae) from the long-billed curlew (Numenius americanus) from northern Mexico

Angiostrongylus cantonensis in North African hedgehogs as vertebrate hosts, Mallorca, Spain, October 2018

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