Assessment of the subtypes and the zoonotic risk of Blastocystis sp. of experimental macaques in Yunnan province, southwestern China

• Published in: Parasitology research (1987) Vol. 119; no. 2; pp. 741 - 748
• Main Authors: Li, Ting-Cui, Li, Zhao, Zhang, Yu-Lin, Chen, Wen-Jie, Dong, Xian-Lan, Yang, Jian-Fa, Li, Hong-Xia, Zou, Feng-Cai
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.02.2020; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: animal diseases; Animals; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biomedicine; Blastocystis; Blastocystis - classification; Blastocystis - genetics; Blastocystis - isolation & purification; Blastocystis Infections - epidemiology; Blastocystis Infections - parasitology; Blastocystis Infections - veterinary; China; China - epidemiology; Colonization; DNA sequencing; Evolution; feces; Feces - parasitology; genes; Genetic Variation - genetics; Genetics; Health aspects; Humans; Immunology; Infection; Macaca; Medical Microbiology; Microbiology; mycoses; Nucleotide sequence; nucleotide sequences; Nucleotide sequencing; Phylogeny; Phylogeny - Short Communication; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Prevalence; Reservoirs; ribosomal DNA; ribosomal RNA; risk; RNA; rRNA; Sequence analysis; subtropics; Zoonoses; Zoonoses - parasitology; China; Subtypes; Prevalence; Zoonotic risk; sp; Macaques; Blastocystis sp

Blastocystis is an enteral eukaryote with an omnipresent existence in animals and humans globally. Animals have been proposed to be a major reservoir for the transmission of Blastocystis to individuals due to their high prevalence and large amount of zoonotic subtypes. However, limited data on Blast...