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Title

Morphological and molecular identification of the metacestode parasitizing the liver of rodent hosts in bamboo growing areas of mizoram, northeast India

 

Authors

Chenkual Malsawmtluangi1, Pramod Kumar Prasad2, Devendra Kumar Biswal3 & Veena Tandon1*

 

Affiliation

1Department of Zoology, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong-793022, Meghalaya; 2Department of Science & Technology, Technology Bhavan, Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-110016; 3Bioinformatics Centre, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong-793022, Meghalaya

 

Email

tandonveena@gmail.com; *Corresponding author

 

Article Type

Hypothesis

 

Date

Selected publications from Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) 10th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2011), Malaysia, November 30 to December 02, 2011

 

Abstract

In Mizoram (Northeast India), rodent outbreaks are known to occur periodically with the onset of bamboo flowering causing a tremendous destruction to food grains and as per the folk belief, often resulting in famine. In an exploratory survey of rodent pests in bamboo growing atreas for their helminth parasite spectrum, metacestodes of tapeworms were frequently encountered infecting the liver lobes and body cavity of the host. The morphological criteria were found to be closely consistent with the metacestode of Taenia species. In molecular characterization of the parasite, the ribosomal DNA (ITS1, ITS2) and mitochondrial COI were amplified and sequenced. Based upon both morphological data and molecular analysis using bioinformatic tools, the metacestode is identified as confirmed to be representing Cysticercus fasciolaris. The adult form of which (Taenia taeniaeformis) commonly occurs in felid and canid mammalian hosts.

 

Keywords

metacestode; rodent; internal transcribed spacer; ribosomal DNA; polymerase chain reaction .

 

Citation

Malsawmtluangi et al. Bioinformation 7(8): 393-399 (2011)
 

Edited by

TW Tan

 

ISSN

0973-2063

 

Publisher

Biomedical Informatics

 

License

This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.