Morphological and molecular identification of the metacestode parasitizing the liver of rodent hosts in bamboo growing areas of mizoram, northeast India

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Title	Morphological and molecular identification of the metacestode parasitizing the liver of rodent hosts in bamboo growing areas of mizoram, northeast India
Authors	Chenkual Malsawmtluangi¹, Pramod Kumar Prasad², Devendra Kumar Biswal³ & Veena Tandon¹*
Affiliation	¹Department of Zoology, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong-793022, Meghalaya; ²Department of Science & Technology, Technology Bhavan, Mehrauli Road, New Delhi-110016; ³Bioinformatics Centre, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong-793022, Meghalaya
Email	tandonveena@gmail.com; *Corresponding author
Article Type	Hypothesis
Date	Selected publications from Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) 10th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2011), Malaysia, November 30 to December 02, 2011
Abstract	In Mizoram (Northeast India), rodent outbreaks are known to occur periodically with the onset of bamboo flowering causing a tremendous destruction to food grains and as per the folk belief, often resulting in famine. In an exploratory survey of rodent pests in bamboo growing atreas for their helminth parasite spectrum, metacestodes of tapeworms were frequently encountered infecting the liver lobes and body cavity of the host. The morphological criteria were found to be closely consistent with the metacestode of Taenia species. In molecular characterization of the parasite, the ribosomal DNA (ITS1, ITS2) and mitochondrial COI were amplified and sequenced. Based upon both morphological data and molecular analysis using bioinformatic tools, the metacestode is identified as confirmed to be representing Cysticercus fasciolaris. The adult form of which (Taenia taeniaeformis) commonly occurs in felid and canid mammalian hosts.
Keywords	metacestode; rodent; internal transcribed spacer; ribosomal DNA; polymerase chain reaction .
Citation	*Malsawmtluangi et al.* Bioinformation 7(8): 393-399 (2011)
Edited by	TW Tan
ISSN	0973-2063
Publisher	Biomedical Informatics
License	This is an Open Access article which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. This is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.