Analysis of Sarcoptes scabiei finds no evidence of infection with Wolbachia

Kate E Mounsey; D C Holt; K Fischer; D J Kemp; B J Currie; Shelley F Walton

doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2004.11.007

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Analysis of Sarcoptes scabiei finds no evidence of infection with Wolbachia

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Analysis of Sarcoptes scabiei finds no evidence of infection with Wolbachia

Kate E Mounsey, D C Holt, K Fischer, D J Kemp, B J Currie and Shelley F Walton

International Journal for Parasitology, Vol.35(2), pp.131-135

2005

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2004.11.007

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Microbiology

Zoology

Wolbachia

sarcoptes scabiei

PCR

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.

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Title: Analysis of Sarcoptes scabiei finds no evidence of infection with Wolbachia
Authors: Kate E Mounsey (Author) - Charles Darwin University
D C Holt (Author) - Charles Darwin University
K Fischer (Author) - Queensland Institute of Medical Research
D J Kemp (Author) - Charles Darwin University
B J Currie (Author) - Charles Darwin University
Shelley F Walton (Author) - Charles Darwin University
Publication details: International Journal for Parasitology, Vol.35(2), pp.131-135
Publisher: Elsevier Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpara.2004.11.007
ISSN: 0020-7519
Organisation Unit: School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy; School of Health and Sport Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health - Biomedicine
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99449737102621
Output Type: Journal article

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