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J Invertebr Pathol ; 200: 107958, 2023 09.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37429541

RESUMO

Several PCR methodologies are available for the detection of Enterocytozoon hepatopenaei (EHP) that target the SSU rRNA gene. However, these methodologies are reported as unsuitable for the detection of EHP due to specificity issues. Here, we report the applicability of two commonly used SSU rRNA methodologies for the detection of additional microsporidia from the genus Vittaforma that is present in cultured Penaeus vannamei from Costa Rica. The molecular detection of DNA of the novel microsporidia can only be achieved using SSU rRNA targeting methodologies and does not cross-react with the highly specific spore wall protein gene PCR detection method.


Assuntos
Enterocytozoon , Microsporídios não Classificados , Microsporídios , Penaeidae , Animais , Microsporídios não Classificados/genética , Penaeidae/genética , Vittaforma/genética , Costa Rica , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase/métodos , Enterocytozoon/genética , Microsporídios/genética , RNA Ribossômico
2.
J Med Microbiol ; 69(3): 414-418, 2020 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32011230

RESUMO

Introduction. Ocular microsporidiosis is a significant emerging infectious disease reported in immunocompromised patients and immunocompetent persons throughout the world.Aim. To identify the pathogens responsible for human keratitis, via corneal scrapings.Methodology. Thirty-three hospitalized patients with epithelial keratitis were examined using staining and DNA sequencing. DNA was extracted from corneal samples and the small-subunit ribosomal RNA gene was amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and sequenced.Results. Twenty-one samples were positive by staining while PCR generated amplicons in 18 cases. Of the 18 sequences, 16 were identical with, or very similar to, those of Vittaforma corneae (99-100 % similarity) and the remaining two sequences were similar to that of unidentified Microsporidium species deposited in the GenBank.Conclusion. This study has reconfirmed that V. corneae causes epithelial keratitis in humans and that a newly detected Microsporidium species is also involved in microsporidial keratitis as one of the emerging pathogens in Thailand. Ophthalomologists should be aware of microsporidial keratitis in people from Thailand and those from neighbouring countries.


Assuntos
Ceratite/microbiologia , Microsporídios não Classificados/genética , Microsporidiose/microbiologia , Adolescente , Adulto , Idoso , Córnea/microbiologia , Feminino , Humanos , Ceratite/epidemiologia , Masculino , Microsporídios não Classificados/isolamento & purificação , Microsporidiose/epidemiologia , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Epidemiologia Molecular , Tailândia/epidemiologia , Vittaforma/genética , Vittaforma/isolamento & purificação , Adulto Jovem
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Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob ; 18(1): 17, 2019 Jun 10.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31182106

RESUMO

BACKGROUND: The utility of formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) corneal tissue specimens for retrospective diagnosis of microsporidial keratitis was evaluated by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) analysis and the possible second case of microsporidial keratitis after Descemet stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK) was described. CASE PRESENTATION: A 68-year-old man presented with multiple crystalline opacities in the corneal stroma that progressed extremely slowly after DSAEK. Fungiflora Y staining of corneal scrapings from the affected regions revealed an oval microorganism. Topical voriconazole administration was ineffective and penetrating keratoplasty was performed. Histological and molecular analyses were carried out on the excised cornea. Ziehl-Neelsen staining revealed an acid-fast, oval organism that was visible by ultraviolet illumination after Fungiflora Y and Uvitex 2B staining, whereas periodic acid-Schiff and Grocott's staining did not yield any significant findings. Microsporidium was detected by TEM of FFPE tissue. Nosema or Vittaforma sp. was suspected as the causative microorganism by PCR of FFPE tissue and by the fact that those species are known to cause eye infection. The corneal graft has maintained transparency at 1 year and half postoperatively. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first known case of microsporidial keratitis diagnosed retrospectively by molecular and ultrastructural study of FFPE tissue, and the possible second case of microsporidial keratitis after DSAEK. Microsporidial keratitis should be considered when corneal opacity refractory to conventionally known therapy would occur after DSAEK. Our findings suggest that more microsporidial keratitis cases than have been reported to date can be identified by TEM or PCR examination of FFPE corneal specimens.


Assuntos
Córnea/patologia , Ceratite/patologia , Idoso , Córnea/microbiologia , Córnea/cirurgia , Córnea/ultraestrutura , Formaldeído , Humanos , Ceratite/diagnóstico , Ceratite/microbiologia , Ceratite/cirurgia , Ceratoplastia Penetrante , Masculino , Nosema/genética , Nosema/isolamento & purificação , Inclusão em Parafina , Estudos Retrospectivos , Vittaforma/genética , Vittaforma/isolamento & purificação
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J Med Microbiol ; 62(Pt 4): 553-559, 2013 Apr.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-23319308

RESUMO

Microsporidia are obligate intracellular parasites that infect eukaryotic cells and have emerged as major opportunistic human pathogens. Due to the difficulties in definitive laboratory diagnosis and insufficient knowledge, ocular microsporidiosis is infrequently reported in India. To improve diagnostic facilities, we have developed a novel duplex PCR (dPCR) for the simultaneous identification of both genera and species of isolates with microsporidian aetiology that cause keratitis. The material scraped from the corneas of 12 clinically diagnosed microsporidial keratitis patients was subjected to routine microbiological examinations and molecular diagnosis using a novel dPCR that targeted the small-subunit rRNA gene (SSU-rRNA) of microsporidia and Vittaforma corneae using genus- and species-specific primers. Of the 12 corneal scrapes, 6 showed positive results in smears, while dPCR provided positive amplification with both pan-microsporidial and V. corneae species-specific primers for 9 corneal scrapes. The results were validated by sequencing and blast analysis. The sensitivity of this novel dPCR method was higher than that of conventional microscopy in the diagnosis of corneal microsporidial infection. dPCR with specific primers is potentially more sensitive, specific and depends less on more complicated methods for exact identification of the aetiology of microsporidial keratitis.


Assuntos
Técnicas de Laboratório Clínico/métodos , Ceratite/diagnóstico , Microsporidiose/diagnóstico , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase Multiplex/métodos , Vittaforma/isolamento & purificação , Primers do DNA/genética , DNA Fúngico/química , DNA Fúngico/genética , DNA Ribossômico/química , DNA Ribossômico/genética , Genes de RNAr , Humanos , Índia/epidemiologia , Ceratite/microbiologia , Microsporidiose/microbiologia , Técnicas de Diagnóstico Molecular/métodos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Micologia/métodos , RNA Fúngico/genética , RNA Ribossômico 18S/genética , Sensibilidade e Especificidade , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Vittaforma/classificação , Vittaforma/genética
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J Invertebr Pathol ; 110(3): 408-10, 2012 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22546521

RESUMO

Queens are the primary female reproductive individuals in honey bee colonies and, while they are generally free from Nosema ceranae infection, they are nevertheless susceptible. We sought to determine whether queens are naturally infected by N. ceranae, as these infections could be a factor in the rapid spread of this parasite. Queens were analyzed using real-time PCR and included larval queens, newly emerged, and older mated queens. Overall, we found that all tissues we examined were infected with N. ceranae at low levels but no samples were infected with Nosema apis. The infection of the ovaries and spermatheca suggests the possibility of vertical transmission of N. ceranae.


Assuntos
Abelhas/microbiologia , Transmissão Vertical de Doenças Infecciosas/veterinária , Microsporidiose/veterinária , Vittaforma/isolamento & purificação , Animais , DNA Fúngico , Monitoramento Ambiental , Feminino , Larva/microbiologia , Microsporidiose/microbiologia , Ovário/microbiologia , Oviductos/microbiologia , Vittaforma/genética
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J Clin Microbiol ; 50(2): 414-8, 2012 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-22116156

RESUMO

This retrospective study included 10 eyes of 9 patients diagnosed with microsporidial keratitis. All of them were known to contract this disease after taking baths in hot springs. The disease was diagnosed based on detecting microsporidia in corneal scrapings using Gram stain and the modified Kinyoun's acid-fast stain. The specimens from the last six patients were subjected to PCR and then sequencing. All of them revealed that the microorganism identified has a high similarity to Vittaforma corneae. Repeated debridement of the epithelial lesions successfully eradicated the microsporidial infection in all nine patients.


Assuntos
Ceratite/diagnóstico , Microsporidiose/diagnóstico , Vittaforma/isolamento & purificação , Adulto , Idoso , Técnicas de Laboratório Clínico/métodos , Córnea/patologia , DNA Fúngico/química , DNA Fúngico/genética , Feminino , Fontes Termais , Humanos , Ceratite/microbiologia , Ceratite/patologia , Masculino , Microscopia , Microsporidiose/microbiologia , Microsporidiose/patologia , Pessoa de Meia-Idade , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Micologia/métodos , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase , Estudos Retrospectivos , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Vittaforma/citologia , Vittaforma/genética
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Antimicrob Agents Chemother ; 52(2): 790-3, 2008 Feb.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-18056284

RESUMO

We amplified, cloned, and sequenced the beta-tubulin gene of Vittaforma corneae, a microsporidium causing human infections. The beta-tubulin gene sequence has a substitution at Glu(198) (with glutamine), which is one of six amino acids reported to be associated with benzimidazole sensitivity. Benzimidazoles were assayed for antimicrosporidial activity and showed poor parasite inhibition.


Assuntos
Antifúngicos/farmacologia , Benzimidazóis/farmacologia , Farmacorresistência Fúngica/genética , Tubulina (Proteína)/genética , Vittaforma/efeitos dos fármacos , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Linhagem Celular , Clonagem Molecular , Fibroblastos/microbiologia , Humanos , Testes de Sensibilidade Microbiana , Microsporidiose/microbiologia , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Tubulina (Proteína)/química , Tubulina (Proteína)/metabolismo , Vittaforma/genética
9.
Curr Genet ; 51(3): 171-86, 2007 Mar.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17235519

RESUMO

Microsporidia are fungi-related obligate intracellular parasites that infect numerous animals, including man. Encephalitozoon cuniculi harbours a very small genome (2.9 Mbp) with about 2,000 coding sequences (CDSs). Most repeated CDSs are of unknown function and are distributed in subterminal regions that mark the transitions between subtelomeric rDNA units and chromosome cores. A potential multigenic family (interB) encoding proteins within a size range of 579-641 aa was investigated by PCR and RT-PCR. Thirty members were finally assigned to the E. cuniculi interB family and a predominant interB transcript was found to originate from a newly identified gene on chromosome III. Microsporidian species from eight different genera infecting insects, fishes or mammals, were tested for a possible intra-phylum conservation of interB genes. Only representatives of the Encephalitozoon, Vittaforma and Brachiola genera, differing in host range but all able to invade humans, were positive. Molecular karyotyping of Brachiola algerae showed a complex set of chromosome bands, providing a haploid genome size estimate of 15-20 Mbp. In spite of this large difference in genome complexity, B. algerae and E. cuniculi shared some similar interB gene copies and a common location of interB genes in near-rDNA subterminal regions.


Assuntos
Cromossomos Fúngicos/genética , Sequência Conservada , Encephalitozoon cuniculi/genética , Encephalitozoon cuniculi/patogenicidade , Proteínas Fúngicas/genética , Família Multigênica , Animais , Sequência de Bases , Linhagem Celular , Biologia Computacional , Cães , Encefalitozoonose/microbiologia , Proteínas Fúngicas/biossíntese , Regulação Fúngica da Expressão Gênica , Humanos , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Especificidade da Espécie , Vittaforma/genética
10.
J Eukaryot Microbiol ; 49(5): 393-401, 2002.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-12425527

RESUMO

The microsporidian Vittaforma corneae has been reported as a pathogen of the human stratum corneum, where it can cause keratitis, and is associated with systemic infections. In addition to this direct role as an infectious, etiologic agent of human disease, V. corneae has been used as a model organism for another microsporidian, Enterocytozoon bieneusi, a frequent and problematic pathogen of HIV-infected patients that, unlike V. corneae, is difficult to maintain and to study in vitro. Unfortunately, few molecular sequences are available for V. corneae. In this study, seventy-four genome survey sequences (GSS) were obtained from genomic DNA of spores of laboratory-cultured V. corneae. Approximately, 41 discontinuous kilobases of V. corneae were cloned and sequenced to generate these GSS. Putative identities were assigned to 44 of the V. corneae GSS based on BLASTX searches, representing 21 discrete proteins. Of these 21 deduced V. corneae proteins, only two had been reported previously from other microsporidia (until the recent report of the Encephalitozoon cuniculi genome). Two of the V. corneae proteins were of particular interest, reverse transcriptase and topoisomerase IV (parC). Since the existence of transposable elements in microsporidia is controversial, the presence of reverse transcriptase in V. corneae will contribute to resolution of this debate. The presence of topoisomerase IV was remarkable because this enzyme previously had been identified only from prokaryotes. The 74 GSS included 26.7 kilobases of unique sequences from which two statistics were generated: GC content and codon usage. The GC content of the unique GSS was 42%, lower than that of another microsporidian, E. cuniculi (48% for protein-encoding regions), and substantially higher than that predicted for a third microsporidian, Spraguea lophii (28%). A comparison using the Pearson correlation coefficient showed that codon usage in V. corneae was similar to that in the yeasts, Saccharomyces cerevisiae (r = 0.79) and Shizosaccharomyces pombe (r = 0.70), but was markedly dissimilar to E. cuniculi (r = 0.19).


Assuntos
Genoma de Protozoário , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Vittaforma/genética , Sequência de Aminoácidos , Animais , Composição de Bases , Clonagem Molecular , Códon , Humanos , Microsporidiose/parasitologia , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Infecções Oportunistas/parasitologia , Filogenia , Proteínas de Protozoários/química , Proteínas de Protozoários/genética , Proteínas de Protozoários/metabolismo , Esporos de Protozoários/genética , Vittaforma/crescimento & desenvolvimento , Vittaforma/patogenicidade
11.
FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol ; 29(2): 95-100, 2000 Oct.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-11024347

RESUMO

In order to estimate the rate and seasonal variation of Enterocytozoon bieneusi contamination of surface water, sequential samples of water from the River Seine in France were collected during a 1-year period. Each sample (300-600 l) was submitted to sequential filtrations, and the filters were then examined for microsporidia using light microscopy and nested polymerase chain reaction (PCR) for E. bieneusi. Amplified products were hybridized with a E. bieneusi-specific probe. Twenty-five samples of water were analyzed during 1 year. Microscopic examination of stained filters proved unreliable for the identification of spores. Using nested PCR, 16 of 25 specimens were positive (64%). Unexpectedly, E. bieneusi was identified in only one sample by specific hybridization underlining the lack of specificity of ours primers. Nevertheless, using DNA sequence analysis, unknown microsporidia species were identified in eight cases, which had highest scores of homology with Vittaforma corneae or Pleistophora sp. This study shows a low rate of water contamination by E. bieneusi suggesting that the risk of waterborne transmission to humans is limited.


Assuntos
Enterocytozoon/isolamento & purificação , Água Doce/parasitologia , Microsporídios/isolamento & purificação , Microbiologia da Água , Animais , Southern Blotting , DNA de Protozoário/análise , Enterocytozoon/genética , Seguimentos , França , Microsporídios/genética , Pleistophora/genética , Reação em Cadeia da Polimerase , Homologia de Sequência do Ácido Nucleico , Vittaforma/genética
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