| Abstrakt: |
Cystic Echinococcosis (CE) has serious impacts on human health and his animals. It is leading to a significant public health and socio-economic problems in different parts of the world. This study includes a molecular characterization of Echinococcus granulosus in definitive and intermediate hosts including humans in Misan province, south of Iraq. The present study includes survey for CE during the period from December 2017 to October 2018. A 3287 cases were examined 922 sheep, 405 buffalo, 2 camel, 983 cow, and 150 goats from central slaughterhouse of Al-Amarah city (capital of Misan province) and 819 human from Al-Sader Teaching Hospital and Al-Zahrawi Surgical Hospital, the adult worms were obtained from 2 stray dogs. The genetic characterization of the E. granulosus complex in human and livestock population was described for the first time in Misan province by using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and DNA sequencing technology of mitochondrial gene Cox1. The results showed a high prevalence 72.72% of the sheep strain (G1) had been infected all hosts, where 13.63% was recorded as buffalo strain (G3) in sheep and cow hydatid cyst and 4.54% as SB041 strain was recorded in sheep, also 9.09% G1BC genotype was recorded in sheep and buffalo. These records are the first data for the genetic diversity of Echinococcus granulosus in Misan province, south of Iraq. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
