- Title
- Application of a universal parasite diagnostic test to biological specimens collected from animals
- Creator
- Lane, Meredith; Kashani, Mitra; Barratt, Joel; Qvarnstrom, Yvonne; Yabsley, Michael; Garrett, Kayla; Bradbury, Richard
- Date
- 2023
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/195097
- Identifier
- vital:18489
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijppaw.2022.12.003
- Identifier
- ISSN:2213-2244 (ISSN)
- Abstract
- A previously described universal parasite diagnostic (nUPDx) based on PCR amplification of the 18S rDNA and deep-amplicon sequencing, can detect human blood parasites with a sensitivity comparable to real-time PCR. To date, the efficacy of this assay has only been assessed on human blood. This study assessed the utility of nUPDx for the detection of parasitic infections in animals using blood, tissues, and other biological sample types from mammals, birds, and reptiles, known to be infected with helminth, apicomplexan, or pentastomid parasites (confirmed by microscopy or PCR), as well as negative samples. nUPDx confirmed apicomplexan and/or nematode infections in 24 of 32 parasite-positive mammals, while also identifying several undetected coinfections. nUPDx detected infections in 6 of 13 positive bird and 1 of 2 positive reptile samples. When applied to 10 whole parasite specimens (worms and arthropods), nUPDx identified all to the genus or family level, and detected one incorrect identification made by morphology. Babesia sp. infections were detected in 5 of the 13 samples that were negative by other diagnostic approaches. While nUPDx did not detect PCR/microscopy-confirmed trichomonads or amoebae in cloacal swabs/tissue from 8 birds and 2 reptiles due to primer template mismatches, 4 previously undetected apicomplexans were detected in these samples. Future efforts to improve the utility of the assay should focus on validation against a larger panel of tissue types and animal species. Overall, nUPDx shows promise for use in both veterinary diagnostics and wildlife surveillance, especially because species-specific PCRs can miss unknown or unexpected pathogens. © 2022
- Publisher
- Australian Society for Parasitology
- Relation
- International Journal for Parasitology: Parasites and Wildlife Vol. 20, no. (2023), p. 20-30
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Published
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- 3103 Ecology; 3107 Microbiology; Diagnosis; High throughput sequencing; Illumina; Parasite; Veterinary; Wildlife
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- Funding for this work was provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Advanced Molecular Detection (AMD) initiative and the CDC's Parasitic Diseases Branch (PDB) within the Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria (DPDM).
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