TY - JOUR
T1 - First detection of Cryptosporidium proventriculi from wild birds in Cyprus
AU - Hasapis, Kyriacos A.
AU - Charalambidou, Iris
AU - Tsouma, Eleni
AU - Sotiriadi, Konstantina
AU - Kassinis, Nicolaos
AU - Schou, Chad
AU - Karanis, Panagiotis
N1 - Funding Information:
We are grateful to Katerina Georgiou for her assistance with collecting the samples.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2023/1
Y1 - 2023/1
N2 - Cryptosporidium is an important intestinal zoonotic pathogen that can infect various hosts and cause diarrheal disease. There are no reports on the prevalence and molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium in wild birds in Cyprus. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. and genotypes in wild birds found at Phassouri Reedbeds (Akrotiri Wetlands), Cyprus. Fecal samples of 75 wild birds (Eurasian coot Fulica atra, N = 48; Eurasian teal Anas crecca, N = 20; duck – Anas spp., Ν = 7) were screened for Cryptosporidium by PCR amplification and sequencing. Only one sample (1.3%) belonging to a Eurasian coot was PCR-positive for Cryptosporidium. Based on sequencing of the 18S rRNA locus, this species was identified as Cryptosporidium proventriculi. This is the first report on the molecular identification of this Cryptosporidium species in a Eurasian coot.
AB - Cryptosporidium is an important intestinal zoonotic pathogen that can infect various hosts and cause diarrheal disease. There are no reports on the prevalence and molecular characterization of Cryptosporidium in wild birds in Cyprus. Therefore, the present study aimed to determine the prevalence of Cryptosporidium spp. and genotypes in wild birds found at Phassouri Reedbeds (Akrotiri Wetlands), Cyprus. Fecal samples of 75 wild birds (Eurasian coot Fulica atra, N = 48; Eurasian teal Anas crecca, N = 20; duck – Anas spp., Ν = 7) were screened for Cryptosporidium by PCR amplification and sequencing. Only one sample (1.3%) belonging to a Eurasian coot was PCR-positive for Cryptosporidium. Based on sequencing of the 18S rRNA locus, this species was identified as Cryptosporidium proventriculi. This is the first report on the molecular identification of this Cryptosporidium species in a Eurasian coot.
KW - Anas spp
KW - Cryptosporidium proventriculi
KW - Cyprus
KW - Fulica atra
KW - Wild birds
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U2 - 10.1007/s00436-022-07717-y
DO - 10.1007/s00436-022-07717-y
M3 - Article
C2 - 36385306
AN - SCOPUS:85142003932
SN - 0932-0113
VL - 122
SP - 201
EP - 205
JO - Parasitology Research
JF - Parasitology Research
IS - 1
ER -