Hydatigera taeniaeformis in urban rats (Rattus rattus) in Faisalabad, Pakistan

Alvi MA 1 , Li L 1 , Ohiolei JA 1 , Qamar W 2 , Saqib M 3 , Tayyab MH 3 Show all authors , Altaf J 4 , Ashfaq K 3 , Hassan A 3 , Jamal M 5 , Wahab A 5 , Alvi AA 6 , Usman M 3 , Bajwa MRK 3 , Fu BQ 7 , Yan HB 8 , Jia WZ 9

Affiliations 

  • 1 State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Professional Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou 730046, Gansu Province, PR China
  • 2 Department of Pathobiology, University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Lahore, (Jhang Campus), Jhang, Pakistan
  • 3 Department of Clinical Medicine and Surgery, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Pakistan
  • 4 Department of Zoology, Government College University, Faisalabad, Pakistan
  • 5 Livestock and Dairy Development Department (Extension), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
  • 6 Independent Researcher, Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan
  • 7 State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Professional Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou 730046, Gansu Province, PR China; Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease, Yangzhou 225009, Jiangsu Province, PR China
  • 8 State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Professional Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou 730046, Gansu Province, PR China. Electronic address: yanhongbin@caas.cn
  • 9 State Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology, National Professional Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province, Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou 730046, Gansu Province, PR China; Jiangsu Co-innovation Center for Prevention and Control of Important Animal Infectious Disease, Yangzhou 225009, Jiangsu Province, PR China. Electronic address: jiawanzhong@caas.cn
Infect Genet Evol, 2021 Aug;92:104873.
PMID: 33905888 DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2021.104873

Abstract

Hydatigera taeniaeformis formerly referred to as Taenia taeniaeformis is a cestode of cats (definitive hosts) and rodents (intermediate hosts). The prevalence of the metacestode larval stage has been reported in rodents in many parts of the world even though the genetic polymorphisms or intraspecies variation is still understudied. Here, we report a prevalence of 22.09% (38/172) from an urban rodent population in Pakistan and a nucleotide diversity (cox1) of 0.00463 among the population. Infection was higher in male (27.85%) and adult (32.29%) rats than female and sub-adult/young rats. Interestingly, The median-joining network and phylogenetic construction comprising isolates from China, Japan, Kenya, Laos, Malaysia, Senegal, the United Arab Emirates, and countries in Europe demonstrated that Pakistani H. taeniaeformis are closer to Asian and African population than those of European origin. The results of the study will add-in preliminary data for H. taeniaeformis and will also contribute to understand the global molecular epidemiology and population structure of H. taeniaeformis.

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