Occurrence of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum Niewiadomska, 1984 and D. mergi Dubois, 1932 (Digenea: Diplostomidae) in Danish freshwater snails: ecological and molecular data

Title:

Occurrence of Diplostomum pseudospathaceum Niewiadomska, 1984 and D. mergi Dubois, 1932 (Digenea: Diplostomidae) in Danish freshwater snails: ecological and molecular data

Creator:

Haarder, Simon, Jørgensen, Kasper, Kania, Per Walter, Skovgaard, Alf, and Buchmann, Kurt

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:1a0921c5-908c-4d19-8039-5156555c5c2e
uuid:1a0921c5-908c-4d19-8039-5156555c5c2e
doi:10.14411/fp.2013.020

Subject:

Digenea, fish host, site specificity, parasites, and molecular study

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

bez média and svazek

Description:

Freshwater pulmonate snails from three locations in Lake Furesø north of Copenhagen were screened for infection with furcocercariae (by shedding in the laboratory) and recovered parasite larvae were diagnosed by molecular methods (by performing PCR of rDNA and sequencing the internal transcribed spacer [ITS] region). Overall prevalence of infection in snails was 2%. Recovered cercariae from Lymnaea stagnalis (Linnaeus) were diagnosed as Diplostomum pseudospathaceum Niewiadomska, 1984 (prevalence 4%) and cercariae from Radix balthica (Linnaeus) as D. mergi (Dubois, 1932) (prevalence 2%). Pathogen-free rainbow trout were then exposed to isolated cercariae and infection success and site location of metacercariae in these fish were determined. Infection experiments confirmed that both species could infect rainbow trout with the eye lens as infection site for the metacercarial stage although infection success differed. Combination of molecular and biological assays may contribute to improvement of our knowledge on diagnosis, distribution and biology of diplostomids in fish.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

177-180

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 2013 Volume:60 | Number:2

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CDK

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