Rudzińska Monika, Kowalewska Beata, Kurpas Monika, Szostakowska Beata
Department of Tropical Medicine and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Gdansk, 80-210 Gdansk, Poland.
Department of Immunobiology and Environmental Microbiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Gdansk, 80-210 Gdansk, Poland.
J Clin Med. 2022 May 25;11(11):2975. doi: 10.3390/jcm11112975.
is an intestinal microeukaryote with ambiguous pathogenicity, commonly detected in human feces worldwide. It comprises at least 28 genetically diverse subtypes (STs), 12 of which also occur in a wide range of animal species, giving rise to suspicion of zoonotic transmission. To investigate this, we conducted a molecular study of 145 stool samples of pet animals, and 67 of their owners, living in an urban area in Poland. was detected in only three (2.1%) animal samples (of two bearded agamas and a leopard gecko), while all dogs, cats, and pet rodents were -negative. was also present in three (4.5%) owners of animals, but they were cat owners, not reptile owners, and the subtypes identified in them differed significantly from those of reptiles. Additionally, the frequency of in different groups of dogs (depending on how they were kept) was analyzed. This work is the first to find in pet reptiles, and we encourage further investigation of in this poorly examined group of animals, as well as continued study on the transmission of this microorganism between humans and animals.
是一种致病性不明确的肠道微真核生物，在全球人类粪便中普遍被检测到。它至少包含28个基因不同的亚型（STs），其中12个亚型也存在于多种动物物种中，这引发了对人畜共患病传播的怀疑。为了对此进行调查，我们对生活在波兰一个城市地区的145份宠物粪便样本及其67名主人进行了分子研究。仅在三个（2.1%）动物样本（两只髯狮蜥和一只豹纹守宫）中检测到，而所有的狗、猫和宠物啮齿动物均为阴性。在三个（4.5%）动物主人中也检测到，但他们是猫主人，而非爬行动物主人，并且在他们身上鉴定出的亚型与爬行动物的显著不同。此外，还分析了不同组别的狗（取决于饲养方式）中的频率。这项工作首次在宠物爬行动物中发现，我们鼓励对这一研究较少的动物群体中的进行进一步调查，以及继续研究这种微生物在人和动物之间的传播。
