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Fasciola hepatica in Snails Collected from Water-Dropwort Fields using PCR
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Fasciola hepatica in Snails Collected from Water-Dropwort Fields using PCR

The Korean Journal of Parasitology 2014;52(6):645-652.
Published online: December 23, 2014

1Rural Development Administration, Suwon 441-707, Korea.

2Department of Infection Biology, Chungnam National University School of Medicine, Daejeon 301-131, Korea.

3Department of Gastroenterology, The Affiliated Hospital of Guangdong Medical College, Zhanjiang 524-001, Guangdong, China.

4Department of Medical Environmental Biology, College of Medicine, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 156-756, Korea.

Corresponding author (yhalee@cnu.ac.kr)

Hwang-Yong Kim and In-Wook Choi contributed equally to this work.

• Received: September 9, 2014   • Revised: November 20, 2014   • Accepted: November 21, 2014

© 2014, Korean Society for Parasitology and Tropical Medicine

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Fig. 1 Locations of sites at which freshwater snails were collected. Dot (•); water-dropwort fields for snail collection.
Fig. 2 Agarose gel electrophoresis of PCR products containing internal transcribed spacer 1 (ITS-1) and ITS-2 markers of Fasciola hepatica. M, 100 bp marker; lanes 1-15, field snail samples; PC, positive control (F. hepatica worm). Upper panel, 433 bp for ITS-1; lower panel, 364 bp for ITS-2.
Fig. 3 Identification of snails collected from 4 large water-dropwort fields in Korea. (A) Sinistral (left-handed aperture) snails. (B) Dextral (right-handed aperture) snails. (C) Agarose gel electrophoresis of PCR products for detection of L. viridis, L. ollula, and L. auricularia from field snail samples. M, 100 bp marker; lanes 1-12, field snail samples.
Fig. 4 F. hepatica ITS-2 nucleotide sequences of 6 positive samples obtained from PCR products compared with a GenBank sequence (accession no. AJ272053.1). Base homologies are indicated by a dot (∙); base changes are shown in orange. The total length of the F. hepatica ITS-2 region is 468 bp.
Fasciola hepatica in Snails Collected from Water-Dropwort Fields using PCR
Target name Oligonucleotide sequence (5´-3´) Product size (bp) GenBank accession no.
Fasciola hepatica ITS-1 F: ATCATTACCTGAAAATCTACTCTCACA 433 AJ243016.1
R: GTACGTATGGTCAAAGACCAGGTT
Fasciola hepatica ITS-2 F: GTTATAAACTATCACGACGCCCAAA 364 AJ272053.1
R: GAAGACAGACCACGAAGGGTA
Lymnaea viridis 16S F: CGCAGTACCTTGACTGTGCT 208 AF485642.1
R: CGCCCCAACAAAAATAAGAG
Lymnaea ollula 28S F: GTAGCGATTCTGACGTGCAA 211 AY465065.1
R: AGCCGGACTTCTTACCCATT
Lymnaea auricularia ITS-1 F: GCACACGTCCTATCGAAACA 203 JX193589.1
R: AGAGCAAGGCCACTCTTTGA
Survey area Cheongdo Jeonju Suncheon Gijang Total
Items
No. of samples 52 71 43 183 349
Direction of aperture Sinistral Dextral Sinistral Dextral Sinistral Dextral Sinistral Dextral Sinistral Dextral
No. of snails (%) 21 (40.4) 31 (59.6) 14 (19.7) 57 (80.3) 36 (83.7) 7 (16.3) 65 (35.5) 118 (64.5) 136 (39.0) 213 (61.0)
Shell shape
 Shell height/width 8-12 (9.6 ± 1.3)/4-8 (5.8 ± 1.1) 6-11 (7.7 ± 1.4)/3-6 (3.8 ± 0.6) 6-9 (7.1 ± 1.4)/4-7 (4.6 ± 0.4) 5-8 (6.3 ± 1.6)/3-6 (3.9 ± 0.3) 7-12 (9.1 ± 1.2)/3-6 (3.7 ± 0.9) 7-11 (9.0 ± 1.1)/3-7 (3.3 ± 0.7) 7-16 (9.8 ± 1.8)/3-8 (6.3 ± 1.6) 7-13 (9.1 ± 1.9)/5-8 (6.1 ± 1.5) 5-16 (9.9 ± 1.4)/3-8 (5.5 ± 1.2) 5-13 (8.1 ± 1.5)/3-8 (4.1 ± 0.8)
 No. of whorls 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4
 Aperture height/width 3-6 (5.5 ± 0.3)/3-4 (3.4 ± 0.2) 3-6 (4.3 ± 0.6)/2-4 (3.1 ± 0.5) 4-7 (4.2 ± 0.9)/2-4 (3.2 ± 0.8) 3-7 (3.8 ± 0.8)/2-4 (2.9 ± 0.7) 3-7 (5.8 ± 1.2)/2-4 (3.1 ± 0.4) 3-6 (5.2 ± 0.9)/2-4 (3.1 ± 0.4) 3-8 (5.3 ± 1.3)/3-6 (4.2 ± 0.9) 3-8 (5.2 ± 1.4)/2-8 (4.2 ± 0.9) 3-8 (5.7 ± 1.2)/2-6 (3.5 ± 0.7) 3-8 (4.4 ± 0.9)/2-6 (3.3 ± 0.6)
No. of F. hepatica-infected 0 0 0 11 0 0 0 1 0 12
No. of infected (%) 0 (0.0) 11 (15.5) 0 (0.0) 1 (0.5) 12 (3.4)
PCR result
 Reported vectors in Korea
  L. viridis - 0 - 1 1
  L. ollula - 5 - 0 5
  L. auricularia - 0 - 0 0
 The others - 6 - 0 6
Table 1. Primers used for detection of F. hepatica and identification of snail species collected from water-dropwort fields in Korea
Table 2. Morphological and molecular characteristics of the collected snails