Molecular differentiation of Angiostrongylus taxa (Nematoda: Angiostrongylidae) by cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene sequences

Acta Tropica
Praphathip EamsobhanaHoi Sen Yong

Abstract

Nematodes of the genus Angiostrongylus are parasites of rodents and carnivores. They reside in the pulmonary or mesenteric arteries of their hosts. Two species are pathogenic in humans -Angiostrongylus cantonensis causes eosinophilic meningitis or meningoencephalitis, and Angiostrongylus costaricensis produces abdominal angiostrongyliasis. In addition Angiostrongylus malaysiensis may have the potential of being pathogenic in humans. The mitochondrial gene cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) of these Angiostrongylus species and three geographical isolates (China, Hawaii and Thailand) of A. cantonensis were studied by polymerase chain reaction amplification and DNA sequencing. COI sequences of A. cantonensis, A. costaricensis and Angiostrongylus vasorum in the GenBank were included for comparison. Phylogenetic analysis by maximum-likelihood (ML), maximum-parsimony (MP), neighbour-joining (NJ) and Bayesian inference (BI) produced similar tree topology except variation in the bootstrap support values. There were two major clades - (1) A. cantonensis and A. malaysiensis, and (2) A. costaricensis and A. vasorum. The three geographical isolates of A. cantonensis formed a clade with low to high bootstrap values, and consisted of two s...Continue Reading

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