Navarro-i-Martinez Luis, da Silva Alexandre J, Bornay-Llinares Fernando J, Moura Iaci N S, del Aguila Carmen, Oleaga Ana, Pieniazek Norman J
División de Parasitología, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Alicante, Spain.
J Parasitol. 2007 Dec;93(6):1536-8. doi: 10.1645/GE-1116.1.
Species of Cryptosporidium infect a broad variety of animals. Because morphological features of the secreted oocysts are not useful in identifying the parasite at the species level, molecular tools were used to accomplish this task, leading to discovery of new Cryptosporidium species. With the use of this approach, Cryptosporidium bovis has recently been described as a new species infecting bovines and several other hosts, but clearly distinct from C. parvum. In this report, we present a description of a Cryptosporidium sp. isolate from a newborn lamb from a farm in Spain. The isolate seemed to be very similar to C. bovis based on the analysis of the gene that codes for the 18S rRNA.
隐孢子虫属的物种可感染多种动物。由于分泌的卵囊的形态特征在物种水平上对鉴定该寄生虫并无用处，因此使用分子工具来完成这项任务，从而发现了新的隐孢子虫物种。通过使用这种方法，牛隐孢子虫最近被描述为一种感染牛和其他几种宿主的新物种，但明显不同于微小隐孢子虫。在本报告中，我们描述了从西班牙一个农场的新生羔羊中分离出的一种隐孢子虫属物种。基于对编码18S核糖体RNA的基因的分析，该分离株似乎与牛隐孢子虫非常相似。
