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Başlık: First time identification of Acanthamoeba genotypes in the cornea samples of wild birds; Is Acanthamoeba keratitis making the predatory birds a target?
Yazarlar: Karakavuk, Muhammet
Aykur, Mehmet
Şahar, Esra Atalay
Karakuş, Mehmet
Döndüren, Ömer
Özdemir, Hüseyin Gökhan
Can, Hüseyin
Gürüz, Adnan Yüksel
Dağcı, Hande
Döşkaya, Mert
Uludağ Üniversitesi/Veteriner Fakültesi/İç Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı.
Aldemir, Duygu
57195380799
Anahtar kelimeler: Parasitology
Acanthamoeba
Cornea
Eurasian sparrowhawk (Accipiter nisus)
Keratitis
Peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus)
Wild birds
Confocal microscopy diagnosis
Noncontact lens wearers
Chain-reaction analysis
Canary-islands
Molecular characterization
Amebic keratitis
Human health
Pcr assay
Water
Spp
Yayın Tarihi: 10-Ağu-2017
Yayıncı: Elsevier
Atıf: Karakavuk, M. vd. (2017). ''First time identification of Acanthamoeba genotypes in the cornea samples of wild birds; Is Acanthamoeba keratitis making the predatory birds a target?''. Experimental Parasitology, 183, 137-142.
Özet: Acanthamoeba is a free-living amoeba which can be isolated from environment and among others well known as an opportunist protozoan parasite causing infections in humans and animals. Eyes are extremely important for the wild birds and losing sight ability due to Acanthamoeba can be dangerous. The studies on Acanthamoeba infection in wild birds is very few in world and Turkey therefore we aimed to screen deceased wild birds found in Izmir and Manisa provinces located in western Turkey using PCR and non-nutrition agar (NNA) plate method. Cornea samples were obtained from 18 deceased wild birds. During the external examination, signs of keratitis were observed in two Eurasian sparrowhawks (Accipiter nisus). All of the corneal samples were analyzed by two PCR methods and NNA plate. According to results, the Acanthamoeba positivity in corneal samples was 16.6% and 5.5% by PCR and plate method, respectively. According to sequencing data, two of isolates belonged to genotype T5 and one was genotype T4. In conclusion, Acanthamoeba infection was detected in wild bird cornea samples with/without keratitis for the first time in the world. The result of this study also show that Acanthamoeba can be a cause of keratitis in wild birds of Turkey and thus these predator birds can be a target of other wild animals due to loss of sight ability. In terms of public health, these results show the importance of wild birds as a source of Acanthamoeba infection in nature.
URI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exppara.2017.08.007
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014489417303259
1090-2449
http://hdl.handle.net/11452/30764
ISSN: 0014-4894
Koleksiyonlarda Görünür:Scopus
Web of Science

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