Detection of Hepatocystis sp. in Southeast Asian Flying Foxes (Pteropodidae) Using Microscopic and Molecular Methods

Kevin J. Olival; Eric O. Stiner; Susan L. Perkins

doi:10.1645/GE-1208.1

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1 December 2007 Detection of Hepatocystis sp. in Southeast Asian Flying Foxes (Pteropodidae) Using Microscopic and Molecular Methods

Kevin J. Olival, Eric O. Stiner, Susan L. Perkins

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J. of Parasitology, 93(6):1538-1540 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-1208.1

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Three species of flying fox (Pteropus hypomelanus, P. vampyrus, and P. lylei) from Malaysia and Vietnam were screened for apicomplexan parasites by thin blood smears and polymerase chain reaction. Only 1 of 16 bats sampled from 3 localities in southeast Asia was found to be infected (P. hypomelanus from Pulau Pangkor, Malaysia). We observed micro- and macrogametocytes, with morphology consistent with Hepatocystis sp. parasites, using light microscopy. Phylogenetic analysis of the cytochrome b gene showed that the parasite from P. hypomelanus groups with 2 published sequences from Hepatocystis spp., including one from Cynopterus brachyotis, another fruit bat in the Pteropodidae.

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Kevin J. Olival, Eric O. Stiner, and Susan L. Perkins "Detection of Hepatocystis sp. in Southeast Asian Flying Foxes (Pteropodidae) Using Microscopic and Molecular Methods," Journal of Parasitology 93(6), 1538-1540, (1 December 2007). https://doi.org/10.1645/GE-1208.1

Published: 1 December 2007

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