title: Genetic relatedness among Trypanosoma evansi stocks by random amplification of polymorphic DNA and evaluation of a synapomorphic DNA fragment for species-specific diagnosis.
abstract: In this study we employed randomly amplified polymorphic DNA patterns to assess the genetic relatedness among 14 Brazilian Trypanosoma evansi stocks from domestic and wild hosts, which are known to differ in biological characteristics. These akinetoplastic stocks were compared with one another, to three Old World (Ethiopia, China and Philippines) dyskinetoplastic stocks of T. evansi, and also with Trypanosoma equiperdum, Trypanosoma brucei brucei, Trypanosoma brucei gambiense and Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis showed limited heterogeneity in T. evansi stocks from different hosts and geographical regions of the world, or in other species of the subgenus Trypanozoon. However, minor variations generated random amplification of polymorphic DNA analysis disclosed a pattern consisting of a unique synapomorphic DNA fragment (termed Te664) for the T. evansi cluster that was not detected in any other trypanosome species investigated. Pulsed field gel electrophoresis analysis demonstrated that the Te664 fragment is a repetitive sequence, dispersed in intermediate and minichromosomes of T. evansi. Based on this sequence, we developed a conventional PCR assay for the detection of T. evansi using crude preparations of blood collected either on glass slides or on filter paper as template DNA. Our results showed that this assay may be useful as a diagnostic tool for field-epidemiological studies of T. evansi.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Parasitologia, Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas, Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, 1374, 05508-900, Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil.
authors.forename: R M
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Ventura
authors.forename: G F
authors.initials: GF
authors.lastname: Takeda
authors.forename: R A M S
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.forename: V L B
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Nunes
authors.forename: G A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Buck
authors.forename: M M G
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Teixeira
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D015139:Blotting, Southern; D001938:Brazil; D002020:Buffaloes; D002335:Carnivora; D002417:Cattle; D016054:DNA, Protozoan / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics*; D004285:Dogs; D016521:Electrophoresis, Gel, Pulsed-Field; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006736:Horses; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction; D019105:Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Technique; D012377:Rodentia; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D013045:Species Specificity; D013552:Swine; D014345:Trypanosoma / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D016054:DNA, Protozoan