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Extensive diversity of intestinal trichomonads of non-human primates

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 September 2011

PAVLA SMEJKALOVÁ ,
KLÁRA J. PETRŽELKOVÁ ,
KATEŘINA POMAJBÍKOVÁ ,
DAVID MODRÝ  and
IVAN ČEPIČKA
PAVLA SMEJKALOVÁ
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, 128 44 Prague, Czech Republic Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, 128 44, Prague, Czech Republic
KLÁRA J. PETRŽELKOVÁ
Affiliation:
Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Květná 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic Liberec ZOO, Masarykova 1347/31, 460 01 Liberec, Czech Republic
KATEŘINA POMAJBÍKOVÁ
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Palackého 1-3, 612 42 Brno, Czech Republic
DAVID MODRÝ
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Palackého 1-3, 612 42 Brno, Czech Republic Biology Center, Institute of Parasitology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Branišovská 31, 370 05 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
IVAN ČEPIČKA*
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, 128 44, Prague, Czech Republic
*
*Corresponding author: Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, 128 44, Prague, Czech Republic. Tel: +420 221951842. Fax: +420 221951841. E-mail: ivan.cepicka@centrum.cz
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Summary

Despite the fact that the non-human primates are our closest relatives and represent a species-rich mammalian group, little is known about their intestinal protistan parasites/commensals. Particularly, the intestinal trichomonads represent a neglected part of the fauna of the primate digestive system. We have established 30 trichomonad strains isolated from feces of 11 primate species kept in 3 Czech zoos and performed an analysis of their SSU rDNA and ITS1-5·8S rDNA-ITS2. Our results showed that intestinal trichomonads are rather common among non-human primates. Molecular phylogenetic analysis showed that the strains are unexpectedly diversified, belonging to 8 or 9 distinct species. Interestingly, the vast majority of the strains from non-human primates belonged to the genus Tetratrichomonas while no member of this genus has been found in the human intestine so far. In addition, hominoid and non-hominoid primates differed in their intestinal trichomonads. Our results suggest that captive primates possibly may be infected by intestinal trichomonads of other vertebrates such as pigs, cattle, birds, tortoises and lizards.

Keywords

trichomonadsParabasalianon-human primatesdiversityhost specificity
Type
Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 139 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 92 - 102
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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