BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SOME SPECIES OF TRYPANOSOMA (SCHIZOTRYPANUM) FROM BATS (MICROCHIROPTERA)
BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF SOME SPECIES OF TRYPANOSOMA (SCHIZOTRYPANUM) FROM BATS (MICROCHIROPTERA)
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DOI:
10.4269/ajtmh.1978.27.483
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发表时间:
1978-01-01
影响因子:
3.3
通讯作者:
BARRETT, TV
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作者:
BAKER, JR;MILES, MA;BARRETT, TV
Trypanosoma (Schizotrypanum) spp. isolated from bats (Microchiroptera) in Europe and Latin America were examined by determining the buoyant densities of their nuclear and kinetoplastic DNA and the electrophoretic patterns of 6 isoenzymes. By these criteria they were separated into 3 distinct groups.sbd.2 from Europe (T. dionisii and T. vespertilionis) and 1 from America. T. dionisii was also separable by its morphology in vitro. Geographical location and DNA buoyant densities suggested that the American stocks were more closely related to T. cruzi than to the European species, though they differed from it marginally in kinetoplastic DNA density and in being non-infective to mice. Similar stocks studied by other workers have been shown to differ from T. cruzi in reduced infectivity to, and lack of natural association with Triatominae, and in antigenic composition. Trypanosomes of the subgenus Schizotrypanum occurring naturally in Microchiroptera and differing from T. cruzi s.s. should be treated as a distinct subspecies, T. cruzi marinkellei ssp. nov. T. cruzi s.s. becomes the nominate subspecies T. cruzi cruzi Chagas 1909.