Occurence of parasitic microsporidia Encephalitozoon spp. in
wild rodents in ZOO Brno

a 2018

Occurence of parasitic microsporidia Encephalitozoon spp. in wild rodents in ZOO Brno

PITTERMANNOVÁ, Pavlína, Jiřina MARKOVÁ, Alena ŽÁKOVSKÁ and Eva BÁRTOVÁ

Basic information

Original name

Occurence of parasitic microsporidia Encephalitozoon spp. in wild rodents in ZOO Brno

Authors

PITTERMANNOVÁ, Pavlína (203 Czech Republic, guarantor), Jiřina MARKOVÁ (203 Czech Republic), Alena ŽÁKOVSKÁ (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Eva BÁRTOVÁ (203 Czech Republic)

Edition

XIIIth SLOVAK AND CZECH PARASITOLOGICAL DAYS, 2018

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Konferenční abstrakt

Field of Study

10600 1.6 Biological sciences

Country of publisher

Slovakia

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/18:00106106

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

ISBN

978-80-968473-9-6

Keywords in English

microsporidia Encephalitozoon spp. wild rodents ZOO Brno

Změněno: 7/3/2019 16:49, doc. RNDr. Alena Žákovská, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

Encephalitozoon spp. belongs to obligatory intracellular microsporidia, which is causing systematic disease in animals. Encephalitozoonosis is zoonosis, dangerous especially for immunocompromised individuals. Infection is often asymptomatic but sometimes it develop neurologic abnormalities and progressive renal failure. Parasite is spreading especially by urine and faeces. Since we know little of its occurrence in wild rodents, the aim of this study was to detect Encephalitozoon spp. in wild rodents in ZOO Brno. Trapping of rodents was done by using spring traps and life-hunt traps in years 2016 – 2017. In total, 54 rodents were trapped including 27 Yellow-necked Field Mouse (Apodemus flavicollis), 19 Long-tailed Field Mouse (A. sylvaticus), 5 Eurasian Harvest Mouse (Micromys minutus) and 3 Bank Vole (Clethrionomys glareolus). Encephalitozoon spp. was detected in liver of 13 (24 %) rodents by nested PCR. Positive animals included 9 Yellow-necked Field Mouse, 3 Long-tailed Field Mouse and 1 Bank Vole. Our results demonstrate that wild rodents in zoo Brno are coming into contact with Encephalitozoon spp., and they can serve as source of infection for zoo animals, but also for humans (zoo personnel and visitors).

Citovat

PITTERMANNOVÁ, Pavlína, Jiřina MARKOVÁ, Alena ŽÁKOVSKÁ and Eva BÁRTOVÁ. Occurence of parasitic microsporidia Encephalitozoon spp. in wild rodents in ZOO Brno. In XIIIth SLOVAK AND CZECH PARASITOLOGICAL DAYS. 2018. ISBN 978-80-968473-9-6.

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PITTERMANNOVÁ, Pavlína, Jiřina MARKOVÁ, Alena ŽÁKOVSKÁ and Eva BÁRTOVÁ. Occurence of parasitic microsporidia Encephalitozoon spp. in wild rodents in ZOO Brno. In \textit{XIIIth SLOVAK AND CZECH PARASITOLOGICAL DAYS}. 2018. ISBN~978-80-968473-9-6.

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