Evidence supporting the zoonotic and non-zoonotic transmission of<i>Enterocytozoon bieneusi</i>

Leelayoova, Saovanee; Suputtamongkol, Yupin; Subrungruang, Ittisak; Worapong, J.; Chavalitshewinkoon-Petmitr, Porntip; Mungthin, Mathirut

doi:10.1179/136485908x300823

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“…Consistent with previously published ITS phylogenies (Drosten et al, 2005), UD values smaller than 1 indicate partial segregation by host. This conclusion was also inferred by others on the basis of sequence comparisons (Cama et al, 2007; Dengjel et al, 2001; Leelayoova et al, 2008; Mathis et al, 2005; Santin et al, 2005; Sulaiman et al, 2004). Recently, Ten Hove and co-workers found that in a group of 57 isolates from the Netherlands and Malawi ITS sequences isolated from pigs and cattle formed separate clusters, and that E. bieneusi from immunosuppressed individuals shared the ITS genotype C (ten Hove et al, 2009).…”

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Host-specific segregation of ribosomal nucleotide sequence diversity in the microsporidian Enterocytozoon bieneusi

Widmer

Akiyoshi

2010

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

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Enterocytozoon bieneusi is a unicellular enteric fungal pathogen and the most common cause of human microsporidiosis. The frequent detection of this organism in animals, including companion animals, livestock and wildlife, has raised the question of the importance of animal reservoirs in the epidemiology of this pathogen. A partial sequence of the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) has been widely used as a genetic marker for studying the molecular epidemiology of E. bieneusi. With the aim of comparing E. bieneusi ITS genotypes originating from different host species, and assess the potential for zoonotic transmission, E. bieneusi ITS sequences retrieved from GenBank were analyzed using two metrics of diversity, rarefaction and phylogenetic distance. In spite of the human ITS sample being geographically more diverse, ITS sequence diversity in animals exceeded that of humans. In both host groups much of the ITS diversity remains to be sampled. Using quantitative phylogenetic tests we found evidence for a partial but significant segregation of E. bieneusi ITS sequences according to host species. Host-specific segregation was confirmed by hierarchical analysis of molecular variation. To improve our understanding of the epidemiology of human microsporidiosis and strengthen the study of E. bieneusi populations, efforts to genotype additional E. bieneusi isolates from wildlife and companion animals should be prioritized and the geographic and species diversify of animal samples should be increased. Due to the possibility of genetic recombination in this species, additional unlinked genetic markers need to be developed and included in future studies.

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