Antigenic and genotypic characterization of Echinococcus granulosus larval isolates from Egypt

Genotypic characterization of Echinococcus granulosus in Iranian goats

Mohammad Reza Youssefi, Reza Tabaripour, Vahid Fallah Omrani, Adel Spotin, Behzad Esfandiari Department of Veterinary Parasitology, Islamic Azad University Babol-Branch, Iran Department of Cellular and Molecular, Islamic Azad University Babol-Branch, Iran Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Department of Paras...

Molecular Characterization of Echinococcus granulosus Sensu Lato from Farm Animals in Egypt

Little is known on the diversity and public health significance of Echinococcus species in livestock in Egypt. In this study, 37 individual hydatid cysts were collected from dromedary camels (n=28), sheep (n=7) and buffalos (n=2). DNA was extracted from protoscoleces/germinal layer of individual cysts and amplified by PCR targeting nuclear (actin II) and mitochondrial (COX1 and NAD1) genes. Dir...

Isolation and characterization of microsatellites from the tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus.

The Echinococcus granulosus genome was searched for microsatellites using 8 different repeated oligonucleotides as probes (GT15, CT15, AT15, CG15, CAT10, CAA10, CGG10 and CATA10). Southern blot experiments revealed that DNA regions containing GT, CAA, CATA and CT repeats are the most frequent in the E. granulosus genome. AT and CG probes showed no hybridization signal. Two loci containing CA/GT...

A transcriptomic analysis of Echinococcus granulosus larval stages

Background: The cestode Echinococcus granulosus the agent of cystic echinococcosis, a zoonosis affecting humans and domestic animals worldwide is an excellent model for the study of host-parasite cross-talk that interfaces with two mammalian hosts. To develop the molecular analysis of these interactions, we carried out an EST survey of E. granulosus larval stages. We report the salient features...

Molecular Characterization of Echinococcus granulosus Isolated from Sheep and Camel in Iran