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Aktas M, Bendele KG, Altay K, Dumanli N, Tsuji M, Holman PJ. Sequence polymorphism in the ribosomal DNA internal transcribed spacers differs among Theileria species. Vet Parasitol 2007; 147:221-30. [PMID: 17513053 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2007.04.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/2006] [Revised: 04/06/2007] [Accepted: 04/09/2007] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The genomic region spanning the two ribosomal RNA internal transcribed spacers (ITS1 and ITS2) and the 5.8S rRNA gene was cloned and sequenced from sixteen Theileria isolates. Each Theileria species possessed ITS1 and ITS2 of unique size(s) and species specific nucleotide sequences. Varying degrees of ITS1 and ITS2 intra- and inter-species sequence polymorphism were found among ruminant Theileria species. The spacers were most polymorphic in the agent of tropical theileriosis, Theileria annulata, and were more conserved in two benign species, Theileria buffeli and Theileria sergenti Chitose. Phylogenetic analysis of the rDNA ITS1-5.8S rRNA gene-ITS2 region clearly separated each taxon, placing them in three clusters. One held T. annulata, Theileria parva, and Theileria mutans, with the latter two most closely related. The second held T. sergenti Ikeda, T. sergenti Chitose, and T. buffeli, with the latter two most closely related. The third cluster held the Theileria ovis isolates.
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- Münir Aktas
- Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Firat, 23119 Elazig, Turkey
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Passos DT, Ferreira CA, da Silva SS, Richter MF, Ozaki LS. Detection of genomic variability in different populations of the cattle tick Boophilus microplus in southern Brazil. Vet Parasitol 1999; 87:83-92. [PMID: 10628703 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4017(99)00147-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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DNA from seven isolates of the cattle tick Boophilus microplus was analyzed by restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP). Three different cDNA clones, named P-9, P-25 and CP-12, isolated from a B. microplus cDNA library, were used as DNA probes. DNA sequences of P-9 have high similarity to ribosomal genes, whereas P-25 does not show significant homology with known sequences within databases. CP-12 is a cDNA clone encoding a cysteine endopeptidase gene. A limited degree of polymorphism was detected with P-9 and P-25, while CP-12 showed a different pattern of bands for each tick isolate. These findings suggest the existence of a complex genotypic diversity of the tick B. microplus population in endemic regions.
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- D T Passos
- Centro de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil
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Takasima Y, Xuan X, Matsumoto Y, Onuma M, Otsuka H. Antibodies produced by mice immunized with recombinant vaccinia viruses expressing two different types of a major Theileria sergenti surface antigen (p32) react with the native surface antigen. Vet Parasitol 1999; 84:65-73. [PMID: 10435791 DOI: 10.1016/s0304-4017(99)00077-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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A 32 kDa major surface antigen, p32, of Theileria sergenti at the piroplasm stage is the main target of the host immune response. The immunogenic property of the p32 varies in some strains among the population of Theileria sergenti in Japan where the Chitose type and the Ikeda type are the most common varieties. We have constructed vaccinia virus recombinants vv/p32C and vv/p32I which harbor the Chitose and Ikeda types of p32 gene, respectively. It was found that vv/p32C and vv/p32I produced type-specific p32 which did not cross react with the monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) against the other type of p32. When mice were immunized with vv/p32C and vv/p32I, antibodies against p32 were detectable 2 weeks after the immunization, and these antibodies reacted with the native surface antigen in purified T. sergenti merozoite.
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- Y Takasima
- Department of Global Agricultural Science, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan
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Govaerts MM, Voet M, Volckaert G, Goddeeris BM. PCR amplification and sequence of the p33 piroplasm surface antigen gene of a Theileria species isolated from cattle in west Java, Indonesia. Ann N Y Acad Sci 1998; 849:126-36. [PMID: 9668457 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1998.tb11041.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Oriental theileriosis, a parasitic disease of cattle caused by protozoa of the Theileria orientalis/sergenti/buffeli group, has been reported in Indonesia but its causal agent had not yet been characterized. This study was carried out to isolate and characterize the parasite through comparison of its p33 piroplasm surface antigen gene sequence, with known p32 sequences of T. sergenti and T. buffeli isolates. A Theileria spp. isolate was collected from an Ongole cow in Jonggol, West-Java, and transferred into a splenectomized calf for antigen production. Piroplasms were extracted from erythrocytes by ammonium chloride-lysis, separated from unlysed leukocytes and parasitic DNA was phenol-extracted. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was carried out on genomic DNA with a pair of 20 bp primers showing consensus for the p32-35 nucleotide sequence of 7 known T. orientalis/sergenti/buffeli isolates. An 875 bp fragment was amplified, and further sequenced on both strands by the dye-labeled terminators method. It showed an 88% homology with the p33 nucleotide sequence of the Japanese T. sergenti Ikeda stock and a lesser homology with 6 other sequences of Australian T. buffeli or Japanese T. sergenti stocks. It was shown to share the presence of the Pst 1 and the absence of the HindIII restriction sites of the T. sergenti Ikeda stock and of one Australian T. buffeli stock, respectively. In conclusion, the affiliation to and the relative position of this Indonesian isolate within the T. orientalis/sergenti/buffeli group has been elucidated.
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- M M Govaerts
- Department of Animal Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural and Applied Biological Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Heverlee, Belgium.
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Onuma M, Kubota S, Kakuda T, Sako Y, Asada M, Kabeya H, Sugimoto C. Control of Theileria sergenti infection by vaccination. Trop Anim Health Prod 1997; 29:119S-123S. [PMID: 9512757 DOI: 10.1007/bf02632949] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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Bovine piroplasmosis caused by Theileria sergenti is a major cause of economic loss in grazing cattle in Japan. Infected calves show chronic anaemia with intraerythrocytic piroplasms and occasionally die in severe cases. We found that parasite stocks and isolates consist of genetically and antigenically mixed populations. To differentiate parasite populations bearing 3 allelic forms of p32/34, an immunodominant piroplasm surface protein, 3 sets of oligonucleotide primers were designed to amplify either of 3 alleles by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). By using this allele-specific PCR, we found that the majority of T. sergenti-infected calves in Japan harbored mixed parasite populations bearing C and I type parasites. To control Theileria infection, we produced 2 vaccine candidates: recombinant baculovirus p32 and synthetic peptide containing Lys-Glu-Lys (KEK) motif. Immunization with either recombinant p32 or synthetic peptide containing KEK sequences with Freund's complete adjuvant resulted in low parasitemia and reduced the clinical symptoms compared to control calves. Interestingly, the parasite with the p32 allelic form corresponding to the one used as the immunogen was suppressed.
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- M Onuma
- Department of Disease Control, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Choi EJ, Kang SW, Kweon CH, Jeong WS, Yoon YD, Song HJ. [Rapid detection of Theileria sergenti by polymerase chain reaction]. THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY 1997; 35:111-7. [PMID: 9241985 DOI: 10.3347/kjp.1997.35.2.111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Four separate pairs of oligonucleotide primers within the coding region in a T. sergenti 33-kDa surface protein gene were selected to detect T. sergenti by PCR. The specificity of PCR-amplified DNA was examined by digestion with restriction enzyme and Southern blot hybridization using T. sergenti p33 DNA probe. PCR appears to be specific for T. sergenti, without detectable signals from uninfected erythrocytes, uninfected bovine leukocytes and other hemoparasites, including A. marginale and B. ovata. Although 46 of 71 specimens (64.8%) from grazing cattle were microscopically positive, PCR in this study showed that 64 specimens (88.7%) were positive. Therefore, PCR proves a useful diagnostic tool for detecting T. sergenti-infected cattle. In addition, it is also revealed that PCR was significantly more sensitive than traditional microscopic examination using Giemsa's stain.
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- E J Choi
- National Veterinary Research Institute, RDA, Anyang, Korea
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Kubota S, Sugimoto C, Kakuda T, Onuma M. Analysis of immunodominant piroplasm surface antigen alleles in mixed populations of Theileria sergenti and T. buffeli. Int J Parasitol 1996; 26:741-7. [PMID: 8894765 DOI: 10.1016/0020-7519(96)00047-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 39] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Previous studies revealed that isolates of Theileria sergenti consisted of at least 2 parasite populations bearing 2 different allelic forms of p33/32, an immunodominant piroplasm surface protein, and that the majority of T. sergenti-infected calves harbored mixed parasite populations of Ikeda (I)- and Chitose (C)-types. In this study we designed an additional oligonucleotide primer, which specifically amplified the p34 gene of T. buffeli (BI-type). DNAs from 3 field isolates in Japan were positive with this primer as well as those prepared from cattle imported from Australia and the T. buffeli Warwick stock, but restriction enzyme patterns of the PCR products from the former 3 were different from those of the latter. The nucleotide sequence of the gene amplified from Japanese isolates showed 89% homology at the nucleotide level and 88% homology at the amino-acid level with T. buffeli p34 genes. The results indicate that T. sergentilbuffeli distributed in Japan and Australia is a mixture of parasites with various combinations of 4 different allelic types.
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- S Kubota
- Department of Disease Control, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Kubota S, Sugimoto C, Onuma M. Population dynamics of Theileria sergenti in persistently infected cattle and vector ticks analysed by a polymerase chain reaction. Parasitology 1996; 112 ( Pt 5):437-42. [PMID: 8677132 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000076897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Theileria sergenti Shintoku stock consists of 2 parasite populations bearing 2 allelic forms of p33/32, an immunodominant piroplasm surface protein. Parasite population changes during parasite passages among cattle and tick vectors, and during persistent infection in individual calves were analysed by using allele-specific polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The parasite DNAs were prepared from piroplasms from calves which had been infected with Shintoku stock by inoculation of sporozoite stabilates or parasitized erythrocytes, and from sporozoite stabilates which had been prepared from Shintoku stock-infected ticks. Changes in a dominant parasite population were demonstrated during transmission from calves to vector ticks and from infected ticks to calves. Parasite population changes were also apparent during persistent infection in cattle over several months, and this change is thought to occur under host immune pressure. The results of this study indicate that expression of diverse forms of p33/32 may play a role in parasite persistence within mammalian hosts and its transmission from tick vector.
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- S Kubota
- Department of Disease Control, Graduate School of Veterinary Medicine, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Zhuang WZ, Sugimoto C, Kubota S, Onoe S, Onuma M. Antigenic alteration in major piroplasm surface proteins of Theileria sergenti during infection. Vet Parasitol 1995; 60:191-8. [PMID: 8747902 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4017(95)00789-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Theileria sergenti piroplasms were purified from different parasitemia peaks of cattle infected with parasitized erythrocytes or sporozoites during persistent infection. Their reactivities with monoclonal antibodies 13F5 and C9, which recognize 23 kDa and 32 kDa piroplasm surface proteins, respectively, were analyzed. Antigenic differences were observed among parasites from different parasitemia peaks during persistent infection when cattle were infected with sporozoites. Results of two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis showed that the 23 and 32 kDa proteins were expressed in all samples tested, regardless of their reactivities with the monoclonal antibodies. In contrast, parasites obtained from cattle inoculated with parasitized erythrocytes showed no antigenic alteration over a 2 month observation period. The results suggest that antigenic alteration of T. sergenti during persistent infection is related to whether the parasites proliferate through extraerythrocytic schizont stage in cattle or sporozoite and other sexual stages in tick vector.
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- W Z Zhuang
- Department of Epizootiology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
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Figueroa JV, Buening GM. Nucleic acid probes as a diagnostic method for tick-borne hemoparasites of veterinary importance. Vet Parasitol 1995; 57:75-92. [PMID: 7597795 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4017(94)03112-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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An increased number of articles on the use of nucleic acid-based hybridization techniques for diagnostic purposes have been recently published. This article reviews nucleic acid-based hybridization as an assay to detect hemoparasite infections of economic relevance in veterinary medicine. By using recombinant DNA techniques, selected clones containing inserts of Anaplasma, Babesia, Cowdria or Theileria genomic DNA sequences have been obtained, and they are now available to be utilized as specific, highly sensitive DNA or RNA probes to detect the presence of the hemoparasite DNA in an infected animal. Either in an isotopic or non-isotopic detection system, probes have allowed scientists to test for--originally in samples collected from experimentally infected animals and later in samples collected in the field--the presence of hemoparasites during the prepatent, patent, convalescent, and chronic periods of the infection in the host. Nucleic acid probes have given researchers the opportunity to carry out genomic analysis of parasite DNA to differentiate hemoparasite species and to identify genetically distinct populations among and within isolates, strains and clonal populations. Prevalence of parasite infection in the tick vector can now be accomplished more specifically with the nucleic acid probes. Lately, with the advent of the polymerase chain reaction technique, small numbers of hemoparasites can be positively identified in the vertebrate host and tick vector. These techniques can be used to assess the veterinary epidemiological situation in a particular geographical region for the planning of control measures.
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- J V Figueroa
- CENID-PAVET, INIFAP-SARH, Jiutepec, Morelos, Mexico
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Ben Miled L, Dellagi K, Bernardi G, Melrose TR, Darghouth M, Bouattour A, Kinnaird J, Shiels B, Tait A, Brown CG. Genomic and phenotypic diversity of Tunisian Theileria annulata isolates. Parasitology 1994; 108 ( Pt 1):51-60. [PMID: 8152855 DOI: 10.1017/s0031182000078513] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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This study describes polymorphism in Theileria annulata, an intracellular protozoan parasite of bovine leucocytes and red blood cells. Fifty-three different stocks of T. annulata, isolated from 17 sites (districts) in Tunisia, have been characterized by anti-parasite monoclonal antibody (MAb) reactivity, glucose phosphate isomerase (GPI) isoenzyme electrophoresis, and Southern blotting with two genomic DNA probes. These appears to be considerable diversity amongst T. annulata stocks from Tunisia, no two isolates being identical, even those from animals on the same farm. Two distinct antigenic populations were detected by MAb 7E7. They were defined by negative and positive cells in the indirect fluorescent antibody test. The percentage of positive cells in different isolates ranged between 0 and 100%. The population variation seen by GPI analysis and DNA probes was greater; 7 different GPI phenotypes were identified amongst the stocks studied, while DNA probes T. annulata Tunis (TaT) 17 and 21 detected up to 5 different variants. The majority of isolates were shown to contain more than one parasite population, the number of variants per isolate ranging from 1 to 4. No correlation between particular parasite phenotypes or genotypes and their geographical site of isolation was observed. Selection of parasite populations in vivo and in vitro is also discussed.
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- L Ben Miled
- Laboratoire d'Hématologie et d'Immunopathologie, Faculté de Médecine de Tunis, Tunisie
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Tanaka M, Onoe S, Matsuba T, Katayama S, Yamanaka M, Yonemichi H, Hiramatsu K, Baek BK, Sugimoto C, Onuma M. Detection of Theileria sergenti infection in cattle by polymerase chain reaction amplification of parasite-specific DNA. J Clin Microbiol 1993; 31:2565-9. [PMID: 8253950 PMCID: PMC265937 DOI: 10.1128/jcm.31.10.2565-2569.1993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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A pair of synthetic oligonucleotide primers, designed from the gene encoding a 32-kDa intraerythrocytic piroplasm surface protein of Theileria sergenti, were used to amplify parasite DNA from the blood of T. sergenti-infected cattle by means of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). PCR-amplified DNA was examined by electrophoresis and by dot blot or microplate hybridization using a parasite-specific cDNA probe. PCR was specific for T. sergenti, since no amplification was detected with DNA from Anaplasma centrale, Babesia ovata, uninfected erythrocytes, and leukocytes. This method was sensitive enough to detect about 4.5 parasites per microliters of blood with a 10-microliters sample volume. Moreover, of 66 specimens from grazing cattle, 40 were microscopically positive, whereas PCR revealed that 54 samples were positive. Therefore, PCR provides a useful diagnostic tool for detecting T. sergenti-infected cattle, and it is significantly more sensitive than the current methods.
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- M Tanaka
- Division of Veterinary Microbiology, Kyoto Biken Laboratories, Japan
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Matsuba T, Sugimoto C, Onoe S, Kawakami Y, Iwai H, Onuma M. Changes in the hybridization patterns of populations of Theileria sergenti during infection. Vet Parasitol 1993; 47:215-23. [PMID: 8101404 DOI: 10.1016/0304-4017(93)90023-g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs) of Theileria sergenti DNA were analysed using probes of a genomic DNA fragment (pTs 2) and a cDNA corresponding to this genomic probe (C-Ts 2). Each of the probes detected RFLPs in DNA from different stocks of Theileria sergenti. Additionally, using these probes, alterations in hybridization patterns were observed in samples of the parasites harvested at different times after individual calves had been infected with Theileria sergenti. This result suggests that the Theileria sergenti stocks used were mixed parasite populations.
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- T Matsuba
- Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Rakuno Gakuen University, Ebetsu, Japan
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Fujisaki K, Kamio T, Kawazu S, Shimizu S, Simura K. Theileria sergenti: experimental transmission by the long-nosed cattle louse, Linognathus vituli. ANNALS OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND PARASITOLOGY 1993; 87:217-8. [PMID: 8561530 DOI: 10.1080/00034983.1993.11812757] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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- K Fujisaki
- First Research Division, National Institute of Animal Health, Ibaraki, Japan
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Kawazu S, Sugimoto C, Kamio T, Fujisaki K. Analysis of the genes encoding immunodominant piroplasm surface proteins of Theileria sergenti and Theileria buffeli by nucleotide sequencing and polymerase chain reaction. Mol Biochem Parasitol 1992; 56:169-75. [PMID: 1474995 DOI: 10.1016/0166-6851(92)90164-f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 65] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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The nucleotide sequences of the cDNAs encoding a 33-kDa piroplasm protein of Theileria sergenti (p33) and a similar protein of Theileria buffeli (p34) were determined. Both of the genes contained an open reading frame of 849 base pairs. The predicted amino acid sequence of p33 and p34, consisting of 283 residues, showed 82% similarity. A transmembrane hydrophobic domain and signal peptides were predicted. The polymerase chain reaction was used to amplify p33/34 genes from the piroplasm DNA of T. sergenti, T. buffeli and Theileria orientalis. Following amplification, p33 and p34 genes were clearly differentiated using the restriction enzymes sites that were not shared between them. These results indicated that p33 and p34 were conserved molecules among these Theileria species, and the genes that encode p33/34 proteins were suitable for discrimination of T. sergenti from T. buffeli/T. orientalis.
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- S Kawazu
- National Institute of Animal Health, Ibaraki, Japan
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