Background: Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Chen, 1935) is a parasite of murid rodents and causative agent of human neuro-angiostrongyliasis. In 2011, the Ogasawara Islands in the western North Pacific were assigned a World Natural Heritage site stat...
Parasitology International 61(3) 431-436 2012年9月 [査読有り]
We conducted a pilot survey of genetic variation of A. cantonensis using small subunit (SSU) ribosomal (r) RNA and mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (cox!) gene sequences. Two distinct SSU genotypes (Cl and G2) were identified among 17 ...
Journal of clinical microbiology 50(6) 2072-2074 2012年6月 [査読有り]
We developed a new loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) method to detect rrs, a 16S rRNA gene of pathogenic Leptospira spp. in urine. The method enables detection of two leptospiral cells per reaction mixture following boiling of urine sp...
Parasitology International 60(3) 324-326 2011年9月 [査読有り]
We collected 24 brown rats, Rattus norvegicus. in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan and found one rat harboring a dioctophymatid nematode. A single male and a female worm were recovered from the abdominal cavity and were identified as Dioctophyme renal...