Clonal amplification of Fasciola hepatica in Galba truncatula: within and between isolate variation of triclabendazole-susceptible and -resistant clones.
Clonal amplification of Fasciola hepatica in Galba truncatula: within and between isolate variation of triclabendazole-susceptible and -resistant clones.
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DOI:
10.1186/s13071-018-2952-z
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发表时间:
2018-06-26
影响因子:
3.2
通讯作者:
Williams DJL
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作者:
Hodgkinson JE;Cwiklinski K;Beesley N;Hartley C;Allen K;Williams DJL
Fasciola hepatica is of worldwide significance, impacting on the health, welfare and productivity of livestock and regarded by WHO as a re-emerging zoonosis. Triclabendazole (TCBZ), the drug of choice for controlling acute fasciolosis in livestock, is also the drug used to treat human infections. However TCBZ-resistance is now considered a major threat to the effective control of F. hepatica. It has yet to be demonstrated whether F. hepatica undergoes a genetic clonal expansion in the snail intermediate host, Galba truncatula, and to what extent amplification of genotypes within the snail facilitates accumulation of drug resistant parasites. Little is known about genotypic and phenotypic variation within and between F. hepatica isolates. Six clonal isolates of F. hepatica (3× triclabendazole-resistant, TCBZ-R and 3× triclabendazole-susceptible, TCBZ-S) were generated. Snails infected with one miracidium started to shed cercariae 42–56 days post-infection and shed repeatedly up to a maximum of 11 times. A maximum of 884 cercariae were shed by one clonally-infected snail (FhLivS1) at a single time point, with > 3000 clonal metacercariae shed over its lifetime. Following experimental infection all 12 sheep were FEC positive at the time of TCBZ treatment. Sheep infected with one of three putative TCBZ-S clones and treated with TCBZ had no parasites in the liver at post-mortem, whilst sheep each infected with putative TCBZ-R isolates had 35–165 adult fluke at post-mortem, despite TCBZ treatment. All six untreated control animals had between 15–127 parasites. A single multi-locus genotype was reported for every fluke from each of the six clonal isolates. Adult F. hepatica showed considerable variation in weight, ranging from 20–280 mg, with variation in weight evident within and amongst clonal isolates. A genetic clonal expansion occurs within G. truncatula, highlighting the potential for amplification of drug resistant genotypes of F. hepatica. Variation in the weight of parasites within and between clonal isolates and when comparing isolates that are either susceptible or resistant to TCBZ represent inherent variation in liver fluke and cannot be attributed to their resistance or susceptibility traits.
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影响因子:
4.5
作者:
Choi YJ;Bisset SA;Doyle SR;Hallsworth-Pepin K;Martin J;Grant WN;Mitreva M
通讯作者:
Mitreva M
影响因子:
4
作者:
Beesley NJ;Williams DJ;Paterson S;Hodgkinson J
通讯作者:
Hodgkinson J
影响因子:
3.3
作者:
Doyle SR;Laing R;Bartley DJ;Britton C;Chaudhry U;Gilleard JS;Holroyd N;Mable BK;Maitland K;Morrison AA;Tait A;Tracey A;Berriman M;Devaney E;Cotton JA;Sargison ND
通讯作者:
Sargison ND
影响因子:
3.7
作者:
Charlier J;Hostens M;Jacobs J;Van Ranst B;Duchateau L;Vercruysse J
通讯作者:
Vercruysse J
影响因子:
2.4
作者:
HODASI, JKM
通讯作者:
HODASI, JKM