Giardia microti

Giardia microti
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Phylum: Metamonada
Order: Diplomonadida
Family: Hexamitidae
Genus: Giardia
Species:
G. microti
Binomial name
Giardia microti
Kofoid & Christiansen, 1915

Giardia microti is a species of Diplomonad parasitic protozoan. Its hosts mainly consist of rodents in the family Cricetidae, which includes voles, mice, rats and muskrats, although they have also been detected from fish.[1][2]

Recorded hosts

Giardia microti has been recorded as a parasite of the following animals:

  • Lates calcarifer [3](Giant seaperch)
  • Microtus arvalus[4] (Common vole)
  • Microtus guentheri[5] (Günther's vole)
  • Microtus ochrogaster[6] (Prairie vole)
  • Myodes glareolus[3] (Bank vole)
  • Ondatra zibethicus [7](Muskrat)

The species is the dominant parasite in the genera Microtus and Myodes.[1]

Phylogeny

Giardia microti is believed to be the sister taxon of the Giardia intestinalis group.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 Helmy, Yosra A.; Spierling, Nastasja G.; Schmidt, Sabrina; Rosenfeld, Ulrike M.; Reil, Daniela; Imholt, Christian; Jacob, Jens; Ulrich, Rainer G.; Aebischer, Toni; Klotz, Christian (2018-03-27). "Occurrence and distribution of Giardia species in wild rodents in Germany". Parasites & Vectors. 11 (1): 213. doi:10.1186/s13071-018-2802-z. ISSN 1756-3305. PMC 5870188. PMID 29587877.
  2. ↑ Yang, Rongchang; Reid, Anna; Lymbery, Alan; Ryan, Una (2010-06-01). "Identification of zoonotic Giardia genotypes in fish". International Journal for Parasitology. 40 (7): 779–785. doi:10.1016/j.ijpara.2009.12.001. ISSN 0020-7519. PMID 20026124.
  3. 1 2 "Giardia microti". Encyclopedia of Life.
  4. ↑ Koudela, B. (1994). "The ultrastructure of the intestinal microvillous border in the common vole (Microtus arvalis) naturally infected with Giardia microti" (PDF). Folia Parasitologica. 41 (4): 241–245. PMID 7883257.
  5. ↑ De Liberato, Claudio; Montalbano Di Filippo, Margherita; Sagrafoli, Daniele; Ferraro, Davide; Guadano Procesi, Isabel; Berrilli, Federica (Feb 2021). "Giardia microti in pet Microtus guentheri: Evidence of a parasite never detected in Italy". Parasitology International. 80: 102207. doi:10.1016/j.parint.2020.102207. PMID 33059116. S2CID 222835263.
  6. ↑ Feely, Dennis E. (Feb 1988). "Morphology of the Cyst of Giardia microti by Light and Electron Microscopy". The Journal of Protozoology. 35 (1): 52–54. doi:10.1111/j.1550-7408.1988.tb04075.x. PMID 3285001.
  7. ↑ Keulen, Harry van; Feely, Dennis E.; Macechko, P. Timothy; Jarroll, Edward L.; Erlandsen, Stanley L. (1998). "The Sequence of Giardia Small Subunit rRNA Shows That Voles and Muskrats Are Parasitized by a Unique Species Giardia microti". The Journal of Parasitology. 84 (2): 294–300. doi:10.2307/3284485. ISSN 0022-3395. JSTOR 3284485.
  8. ↑ Monis, Paul; Andrews, Ross; Mayrhofer, Graham; Ey, Peter (1999). "Molecular Systematics of the Parasitic Protozoan Giardia intestinalis". Mol. Biol. Evol. 16 (9): 1135–1144. doi:10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026204. ISSN 0737-4038. PMID 10486969.


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