Title :

Prevalence and subtype distribution of Blastocystis sp. isolates from poultry in Lebanon and evidence of zoonotic potential

Author(s) :

Greige, Stéphanie [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
El Safadi, Dima [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
Bécu, Noémie [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
Gantois, Nausicaa [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
Pereira, Bruno [Auteur]
CHU Clermont-Ferrand
Chabé, Magali [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
Benamrouz-Vanneste, Sadia [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
Certad, Gabriela [Auteur]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]
El Hage, Rima [Auteur]
Chemaly, Marianne [Auteur]
Laboratoire de Ploufragan - Plouzané
Hygiène et qualité des produits avicoles et porcins [HQPAP]
Hamze, Monzer [Auteur]
Viscogliosi, Eric [Auteur correspondant]
Centre d’Infection et d’Immunité de Lille - INSERM U 1019 - UMR 9017 - UMR 8204 [CIIL]

Journal title :

Parasites & Vectors

Pages :

389

Publisher :

BioMed Central

Publication date :

2018-07-04

ISSN :

1756-3305

English keyword(s) :

Avian parasitology
Blastocystis sp.
Intestinal parasite
Molecular epidemiology
Real-time quantitative PCR
Subtyping
Transmission
Zoonosis

HAL domain(s) :

Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]

English abstract : [en]

Blastocystis sp. is a common protozoan parasite frequently identified in the digestive tract of humans and a large variety of animal hosts worldwide, including birds. It exhibits a large genetic diversity with the ...
Show more >Blastocystis sp. is a common protozoan parasite frequently identified in the digestive tract of humans and a large variety of animal hosts worldwide, including birds. It exhibits a large genetic diversity with the identification of 17 subtypes (STs), most of them with low host specificity. ST6 and ST7 were identified in birds and suggested to represent avian STs only in the context of scarce small-scale epidemiological surveys. Moreover, these two STs also account for a significant proportion of human infections whose zoonotic origin has never been clearly confirmed. Therefore, molecular screening of Blastocystis sp. was conducted by quantitative real-time PCR for fecal samples from poultry farms and their in-contact humans from slaughterhouses in Lebanon. In parallel, a control group consisting of patients hospitalized in the same geographical area and reporting no contact with poultry was also screened for the presence of the parasite.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre d'Infection et d'Immunité de Lille (CIIL) - U1019 - UMR 9017

Source :

Harvested from HAL