Novel genotypes and multilocus genotypes of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in two wild rat species in China: potential for zoonotic transmission

• Published in: Parasitology research (1987) Vol. 119; no. 1; pp. 283 - 290
• Main Authors: Gui, Bin-Ze, Zou, Yang, Chen, Yi-Wei, Li, Fen, Jin, Yuan-Chun, Liu, Meng-Ting, Yi, Jia-Ning, Zheng, Wen-Bin, Liu, Guo-Hua
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2020; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Animals; Animals, Wild; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; China - epidemiology; DNA, Fungal - genetics; DNA, Ribosomal Spacer - genetics; Domestic animals; Enterocytozoon - classification; Enterocytozoon - genetics; Enterocytozoon - isolation & purification; Enterocytozoon bieneusi; Feces - microbiology; Food contamination; Genetic aspects; Genotype; Genotypes; Humans; Immunodeficiency; Immunology; Medical Microbiology; Microbiology; Microsatellites; Microsporidiosis - epidemiology; Microsporidiosis - microbiology; Microsporidiosis - veterinary; Multilocus Sequence Typing; Opportunist infection; Pathogens; Phylogeny; Prevalence; Protozoology - Original Paper; Rats; Ribosomal DNA; Rodent Diseases - epidemiology; Rodent Diseases - microbiology; Sequence Analysis, DNA; Zoonoses; China; Prevalence; Multilocus sequence typing; Genotyping; China; Wild rats; Enterocytozoon bieneusi

Enterocytozoon bieneusi is an opportunistic pathogen in immunodeficient patients. Although this pathogen has been reported in many domestic animals, few data are available about the occurrence of E. bieneusi in wild rats. In the current study, a total of 228 fecal samples from two wild rat species (...