Abstract
A new parasite species of Leishmania is described, L. (Leishmania) forattinii sp. n., which was isolated from a pooled triturate of liver and spleen of a opossum (Didelphis marsupialis aurita) and from skin samples from a rodent (Proechmys iheringi denigratus), captured in primary forest on the Atlantic Cost of Brazil. Our results on the basis of biological and molecular criteria indicate that this taxonomically distinct parasite ias a new species of the L. mexicana complex, but closely related to L. (L.) aristidesi Laison & shaw, 1979, as revelated by phenetic and phylogenetic numerical analyses of the enzyme data. L. forattinii was clearly distinguishable from other Leishmania species of the genus usisng enzyme electrophoresis, monoclonal antibodies, molecular karyotypes, analysis of restriction enzyme digestion patterns of kinetoplast DNA (kDNA), as well as the use of kDNA hybridization procedures.
Leishmania (L.) forattinii sp. n.; Protozoa; Kinetoplastida; Trypanosomatidae; mammalian resevoirs; molecular characterization; monoclonal antibodies; isoenzyme electrophoresis; kenetoplast DNA analysis; molecular karyotype analysis
Description of Leishmania (Leishmania) forattinii sp. n., a new parasite infecting opossums and rodents in Brazil
Elizaide L. A. Yoshida1
Cesar A Cuba Cuba2
Raquel da Silva Pacheco3
Elisa Cupolillo3
Celso Cruz Tavares4
Gerzia M. C. Machado5
Hooman Momen3
Gabriel Grimaldi Junior5
Universidade Estadual Paulista, IBBMA, Departamento de Parasitologia, Botucatu, Brasil
Unviersidade de Brasília, FCS, Departamento de Patologia, Brasília, Brasil
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Departamento de Bioquímica e Biologia Molecular, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Universidade Estadual do Rio de Janeiro, IB, Departamento de Biologia Celular e Genética, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Departamento de Imunologia, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
A new parasite species of Leishmania is described, L. (Leishmania) forattinii sp. n., which was isolated from a pooled triturate of liver and spleen of a opossum (Didelphis marsupialis aurita) and from skin samples from a rodent (Proechmys iheringi denigratus), captured in primary forest on the Atlantic Cost of Brazil. Our results on the basis of biological and molecular criteria indicate that this taxonomically distinct parasite ias a new species of the L. mexicana complex, but closely related to L. (L.) aristidesi Laison & shaw, 1979, as revelated by phenetic and phylogenetic numerical analyses of the enzyme data. L. forattinii was clearly distinguishable from other Leishmania species of the genus usisng enzyme electrophoresis, monoclonal antibodies, molecular karyotypes, analysis of restriction enzyme digestion patterns of kinetoplast DNA (kDNA), as well as the use of kDNA hybridization procedures.
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Sept 1993
