Avcioglu Hamza, Guven Esin, Balkaya Ibrahim, Kirman Ridvan
Department of Parasitology,Faculty of Veterinary Medicine,Atatürk University,Erzurum,Turkey.
Parasitology. 2018 Aug;145(9):1147-1150. doi: 10.1017/S0031182018000082. Epub 2018 Feb 7.
Echinococcus multilocularis is the causative agent of alveolar echinococcosis (AE), one of the most threatening zoonoses in Eurasia. Human AE is widespread in the Erzurum region of Turkey, but the situation of the disease in intermediate and definitive hosts is unknown. A Eurasian lynx (Lynx lynx) was killed in a traffic accident in the north of Erzurum, and was taken to our laboratory. Sedimentation and counting technique (SCT), DNA isolation and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis were performed. The SCT results showed that the lynx was infected with E. multilocularis with a medium (745 worms) worm burden. The DNA of adult worms obtained from the lynx was analyzed with a species-specific PCR, and the worms were confirmed to be E. multilocularis by 12S rRNA gene sequence analysis. This is the first report of E. multilocularis from Eurasian lynx in Turkey.
多房棘球绦虫是肺泡型棘球蚴病（AE）的病原体，AE是欧亚大陆最具威胁性的人畜共患病之一。人类AE在土耳其埃尔祖鲁姆地区广泛存在，但该疾病在中间宿主和终末宿主中的情况尚不清楚。一只欧亚猞猁（Lynx lynx）在埃尔祖鲁姆北部发生的一起交通事故中死亡，并被带到我们的实验室。进行了沉淀计数技术（SCT）、DNA分离和聚合酶链反应（PCR）分析。SCT结果显示，这只猞猁感染了多房棘球绦虫，虫负荷为中等水平（745条虫）。用种特异性PCR分析从猞猁体内获得的成虫DNA，并通过12S rRNA基因序列分析确认这些虫为多房棘球绦虫。这是土耳其首次报道从欧亚猞猁体内发现多房棘球绦虫。
