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Title

Analysis of Sarcoptes scabiei finds no evidence of infection with Wolbachia

Author/Creator

Mounsey, K E | Holt, D C | Fischer, K | Kemp, D J | Currie, B J | Walton, S F

Description

The endosymbiont Wolbachia has been detected in a range of filarial nematodes and parasitic mites and is known to affect host reproductive compatibility and potentially evolutionary processes. PCR of Wolbachia surface protein (wsp), ftsZ and 16SrRNA genes from individual Sarcoptes scabiei mites obtained from a series of individual hosts, and database searches of an S. scabiei var. hominis EST library failed to detect Wolbachia genes. Therefore, Wolbachia appears not to be involved in the genetic subdivision observed between varieties of host-associated S. scabiei or, involved in the inflammatory disease pathogenesis of scabies unlike its activity in filarial infection.

Relation

International Journal for Parasitology / Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 131-135

Relation

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2004.11.007

Year

2005

Publisher

Elsevier Ltd.

Subject

FoR 0605 (Microbiology) | FoR 0608 (Zoology) | Wolbachia | sarcoptes scabiei | PCR

Resource Type

Journal Article

Identifier

ISSN: 0020-7519

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