Morphological and molecular diagnosis of Cyclocoelum mutabile (Trematoda: Cyclocoelidae) in Peru

Authors

  • Luis A. Gomez-Puerta Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria. Laboratorio de Epidemiología y Economía Veterinaria. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7909-979X
  • Martha Y. Salas Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria. Laboratorio de Epidemiología y Economía Veterinaria. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8953-8880
  • Maria T. Lopez-Urbina Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria, Laboratorio de Microbiología y Parasitología.
  • Armando E. Gonzalez Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos. Facultad de Medicina Veterinaria. Laboratorio de Epidemiología y Economía Veterinaria. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1909-1873

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15381/rpb.v25i3.15214

Keywords:

Trematoda, Cyclocoelidae, Cyclocoelum mutabile, Gruiformes, Gallinula chloropus.

Abstract

Cyclocoelum mutabile, a digenea of the family Cyclocoelidae, was found parasitizing the air sacs of a common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus), from the surroundings of the Pantanos de Villa Wildlife Refuge, located in Chorrillos, a district of Lima, Peru. A total of 7 parasites were collected and identified as C. mutabile by morphological methods. Diagnosis was confirmed by molecular analysis and partially amplified mitochondrial genes cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1 (nad1). Nucleotide sequences from the isolates were compared with previous sequences from GenBank, and they showed a high similarity between them (> 96%). This finding constitutes the first record of C. mutabile in Peru. Also, this work makes a brief description of the parasite, as well as the discussion of its hosts and geographic distribution in South America.

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Published

09/25/2018

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Vol. 25 No. 3 (2018)

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Copyright (c) 2018 Luis A. Gomez-Puerta, Martha Y. Salas, Maria T. Lopez-Urbina, Armando E. Gonzalez

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Gomez-Puerta, Luis A., Martha Y. Salas, Maria T. Lopez-Urbina, and Armando E. Gonzalez. 2018. “Morphological and Molecular Diagnosis of Cyclocoelum Mutabile (Trematoda: Cyclocoelidae) in Peru”. Revista Peruana De Biología 25 (3): 315-20. https://doi.org/10.15381/rpb.v25i3.15214.