Preliminary Molecular Characterizations of Sarcoptes scaibiei (Acari: Sarcoptidae) from Farm Animals in Egypt

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• Alternative Title:
  PLoS One
• Personal Author:
  Amer, Said ; Wahab, Taher Abd El ; Metwaly, Abd El Naby ; Ye, Jianbin ; Roellig, Dawn ; Feng, Yaoyu ; Xiao, Lihua
• Description:
  Little is known about the genetic diversity of Sarcoptes scabiei mites in farm animals in Egypt. In this study, we characterized S. scabiei in 25 skin scrapes from water buffalo, cattle, sheep, and rabbits at the nuclear marker ITS2 and mitochondrial markers COX1 and 16S rRNA. Sequences of the ITS2 showed no host segregation or geographical isolation, whereas those of the mitochondrial COX1 and 16S rRNA genes indicated the presence of both host-adapted and geographically segregated populations of S. scabiei. Host adaptation may limit inter-species transmission of. S. scabiei, thus restrict gene flow among S. scabiei from different hosts. This is the first report on the molecular characterization of sarcoptic mites in Egypt. Further genetic studies involving larger numbers of specimens, especially those from humans and companion animals, are needed to understand the molecular epidemiology of sarcoptic mange in Egypt.
• Subjects:
  Animals Animals, Domestic Cluster Analysis Computational Biology Databases, Nucleic Acid DNA, Intergenic DNA, Mitochondrial Molecular Sequence Data RNA, Ribosomal, 16S Sarcoptidae
• Source:
  PLoS One. 2014; 9(4).
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Egypt
• Volume:
  9
• Issue:
  4
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:ba74b89ca2b820a3692cc0f4e0638754334f2d833d8f96b87dd546fd613a27cf
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/27553/cdc_27553_DS1.pdf
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