Mowlavi Gholamreza, Marucci Gianluca, Mobedi Iraj, Zahabiioon Farzaneh, Mirjalali Hamed, Pozio Edoardo
Department of Medical Parasitology & Mycology, School of Public Health & Institute of Public Health Research, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, P.O. Box 6446, Tehran 14155, Iran.
Vet Parasitol. 2009 Oct 14;164(2-4):350-2. doi: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2009.05.001. Epub 2009 May 15.
Nematodes of the genus Trichinella are zoonotic parasites with a cosmopolitan distribution. In Iran, these parasites have mainly been detected in carnivorous mammals, yet information on the Trichinella taxa circulating in this country date back to a time when biochemical and molecular tests were not available. We describe the first detection of Trichinella larvae in a leopard (Panthera pardus saxicolor) in Asia and its identification at the species level. The larvae recovered from the leopard muscles were identified as Trichinella britovi using multiplex PCR. The detection of Trichinella infection in a leopard confirms literature data on the high prevalence of infection in carnivorous mammals in Iran.
旋毛虫属线虫是一种分布于世界各地的人畜共患寄生虫。在伊朗，这些寄生虫主要在食肉哺乳动物中被检测到，但该国有关旋毛虫分类群的信息可追溯到生化和分子检测尚未出现的时期。我们描述了在亚洲一只豹（豹指名亚种）体内首次检测到旋毛虫幼虫并在物种水平上进行鉴定的情况。从豹肌肉中回收的幼虫通过多重聚合酶链反应被鉴定为布氏旋毛虫。在豹体内检测到旋毛虫感染，证实了有关伊朗食肉哺乳动物感染率高的文献数据。
