Molecular approach to analyze strategies of pathogens in wildlife for acuierement of new host

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Some of pathogens are communicable among humans, domesticated and wild animals and cause various diseases. In this study, we investigated protozoan, bacterial and vial pathogens from wild or domestic animals and their environment in order to determine whether they can acquire new host range by crossing biological and environmental barriers.Theileria parasite in ruminants are devided into highly pathogenic and apathogenic species. Wildlife harbor parasites of both categories, but they are not closely related to those from domestic animals on the basis of ribosomal RNA gene analysis. Rhodococcus equi with virulent plasmid are isolated from soil in horse farms, but the plasmid types are similar to those isolated in isolate from European horses. Therefore, pathogenic strains of R. equi may have been brought from Europe and colonized in soil in Africa. Herpesviruses were demonstrated in blood samples on 5 species of antelopes and rhinocerous. The isolate from impala is different from those isolated from domestic ruminants.Taken together, it is concluded that pathogens investigated in this study have been associated and coevolved with their original hosts, and that they are not easily able to acquire new host even under environments where wildlife and domestic animals are in close contact with each other.