Intranuclear coccidiosis in tortoises discovery of its causative agent and transmission

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/60076658:12310/19:43899174 RIV/62157124:16170/19:43876318

Result on the web

<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S093247391830083X?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S093247391830083X?via%3Dihub</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejop.2018.11.002" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.ejop.2018.11.002</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Intranuclear coccidiosis in tortoises discovery of its causative agent and transmission

Original language description

Intranuclear coccidiosis of itestudines (known as TINC) is an emerging disease in chelonians. Although endogenous stages were repeatedly detected in various tissues, attempts to find the oocysts in faeces failed, leaving the question of the transmission and classification of the causative agent of TINC unresolved. We recorded small spherical oocysts (similar to 6-7 mu m in diameter) of an eimeriid coccidium in faeces of a leopard tortoise (Stigmochelys pardalis). Sporulated oocysts were used for the experimental oral inoculation of juvenile coccidia-free tortoises representing 5 species (S. pardalis, Testudo graeca, T. hermanni, T. horsfieldii, and Geochelone sulcata). The oocysts' association with TINC was confirmed based on clinical signs, histopathological findings of intranuclear endogenous stages of the coccidium in many organs (including intestine), and by the partial 18S rDNA sequence analysis of the DNA isolated from organs of the experimentally infected animals and from a single naturally infected as well as from all experimentally infected tortoises. Breeding colonies of chelonians should be screened for this pathogen in order to prevent its further spread and unwanted introduction into endangered free-ranging chelonian populations. (C) 2018 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

10606 - Microbiology

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

European Journal of Protistology

ISSN

0932-4739

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

67

Issue of the periodical within the volume

FEB 2019

Country of publishing house

DE - GERMANY

Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

71-76

UT code for WoS article

000460396700006

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85057118279