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Role of Rhizomys Pruinosus As a Natural Animal Host of Penicillium Marneffei in Guangdong, China bs_bs_banner Role of Rhizomys pruinosus as a natural animal host of Penicillium marneffei in Guangdong, China Xiaowen Huang,1,2† Guohua He,3† Sha Lu,2* Yuheng is the ecological niche of P. marneffei and hypoth- Liang4 and Liyan Xi2** esizes that bamboo rats become infected by inhaling 1Key Laboratory of Malignant Tumor Gene Regulation aerosolized conidia originating from environmental and Target Therapy of Guangdong Higher Education sources, rather than by the fecal–oral route or Institutes, Research Center of Medicine, Sun Yat-sen transplacental crossing. According to the result of Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, no detection of P. marneffei in the artificial farm, the China. activity of bamboo rats might be more relevant to the 2Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Sun distribution and dissemination of P. marneffei in Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, natural environment. Guangzhou, China. 3Department of Dermatology and Venereology, The Second People’s Hospital of Liwan District, Guangzhou, Introduction China. Penicillium marneffei, the only known dimorphic and 4Guangdong Provincial Center for Disease Control and pathogenic species in the genus of Penicillium,isan Prevention, Institute of Pathogenic Microbiology, emerging pathogen that can cause lethal penicilliosis Guangzhou, China. marneffei. This infection is endemic in Southeast Asia, including Thailand, Vietnam, Hong Kong, Southern China, Summary Taiwan, India and Laos (Hu et al., 2013). In these endemic areas, penicilliosis marneffei has been proven to Penicillium marneffei, a dimorphic fungus that can be the third commonest AIDS-indicating systemic oppor- cause penicilliosis marneffei, is endemic in South- tunistic infection among HIV-positive patients (Wong and east Asia. The only known hosts of P. marneffei are Wong, 2011). So far, more than 500 cases have been humans and bamboo rats. The aim of our study was reported in Southern China (Hu et al., 2013). to explore the distribution of P. marneffei in bamboo Since the organism was discovered in 1956 from rats, their associated environment and non-rat- bamboo rats, it has been isolated from the internal organs associated environments. Totally, 270 samples were of four species of rodents (Rhizomys sinensis, Rhizomys collected in Guangdong province of China in 2012; pruinosus, Rhizomys sumatrensis and Cannomys the prevalence of P. marneffei was much higher badius) (Chariyalertsak et al., 1996a; Fisher et al., 2004a; in samples collected from surrounding areas of Gugnani et al., 2004; 2007; Vanittanakom et al., 2006). In burrows (8.2%) than in the samples obtained from the past few decades, several studies attempted to find non-rat-associated sites (2%) or artificial farms of out whether penicilliosis marneffei occurs as a conse- bamboo rats (0%). There was no difference in quence of zoonotic or sapronotic transmission. Till now, it P. marneffei isolated rate from different areas of reveals little association between bamboo rats and this Guangdong province. The infection is prevalent in all infection epidemiologically. Studies in Thailand have rats, and this fungus could be frequently seen in the shown that the infection rate of penicilliosis marneffei did rats’ lungs. This study confirms that bamboo rat not increase in the people who often had contact with bamboo rats. Despite this, the distribution of bamboo rat Received 5 January, 2015; accepted 11 February, 2015. For species generally followed the distribution of P. marneffei correspondence. *E-mail [email protected]; Tel. 2081332289; (Vanittanakom et al., 2006; Cao et al., 2011; Li et al., Fax (+86) 2081332289. **E-mail [email protected]; Tel. 2011), and the multilocus microsatellite typing system (+86) 2081332289. Microbial Biotechnology (2015) 8(4), 659–664 showed little difference in allele frequencies between doi:10.1111/1751-7915.12275 P. marneffei isolates from bamboo rats and human, †The authors contributed equally to this work. which means these two host-associated populations of Funding Information This study was supported by grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, Grant No. P. marneffei shared high similarity (Fisher et al., 2004b; 81171545). Cao et al., 2011). On the other hand, soil exposure, © 2015 The Authors. Microbial Biotechnology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Society for Applied Microbiology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 660 X. Huang et al. Fig. 1. The bamboo rat (R. pruinosus)we captured and surrounding environmental samples. (A) Rat’s cave and stool of the rat; (B) bamboo root in the burrow; (C) the soil and debris of food; (D) petiole; (E) bamboo leaves; (F) bamboo rat. especially during the rainy season, was found to be a risk were collected from the places far away from the burrow factor associated with the infection caused by P. marneffei (with an average distance of 1500 m). From Fig. 1A–E, (Chariyalertsak et al., 1996b; 1997). So far, the available we could find the burrows excavated by bamboo rat and information seems to suggest that exposure to soil, rather the surrounding areas, including the stool of bamboo rat, than the enzootic reservoir, is the dependent factor that is bamboo root in the burrow, the soil and bamboo leaves. associated with the increasing risk of P. marneffei infec- Figure 1F showed the bamboo rat captured from the tion. However, to date, the achievement of extensive burrow. Among the collected 184 samples surrounding efforts for recovering P. marneffei from environments the burrow, 15 isolates of P. marneffei were recovered remains limited. The definitive evidence of the environ- from 15 samples (Table 1). There was no statistical differ- mental reservoir for P. marneffei within the soil or other ence in the recovery of P. marneffei among diverse substrates is still lacking. regions in Guangdong province (P > 0.05). In the obtained We reviewed the cases of P. marneffei infection previ- 50 soil samples far away from the burrows, only one ously reported, and concluded that more than 82% of the sample was positive for P. marneffei. All these isolates cases were reported in Guangxi and Guangdong province were further identified by DNA sequencing of the ITS of mainland China (Hu et al., 2013). Cao and colleagues region. (2011) and Li and colleagues (2011) have shown that in these two provinces, the infection with high prevalence exhibits in bamboo rats of the genera of Rhizomys and Table 1. Penicillium marneffei recovered from different districts of Cannomys. Here, we want to identify the natural cycles of Guangdong province. infection by P. marneffei, so we attempted to recover iso- No. No. positive for lates of P. marneffei from rat burrows, rural regions and Collecting districts examined P. marneffei the artificial propagation farm of bamboo rats from six Chaozhoua 23 4 different districts across Guangdong province. This is the b 10 0 first study to investigate the existence of P. marneffei in Qingyuana 28 2 b bamboo rats, natural environment and artificial propaga- 10 0 Zhaoqinga 34 4 tion farm. b 10 1 Meizhoua 44 3 b 10 0 a Results Shaoguan 55 2 b 10 0 Prevalence of P. marneffei across Guangdong province Artificial farms 36 0 Total 270 16 of China a. Samples were collected from the places near bamboo rats’ One hundred eighty-four samples were collected from the burrows. places near bamboo rats’ burrows, and 50 soil samples b. Samples were collected from the places far away from the burrow. © 2015 The Authors. Microbial Biotechnology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Society for Applied Microbiology, Microbial Biotechnology, 8, 659–664 The natural animal host of Penicillium marneffei 661 Table 2. The positive ratio of P. marneffei recovered from different healthy, and at necropsy, no visible pathologic changes samples, which collected from areas surrounding burrows. were observed on any of the internal organs of the rats. Figure 3 revealed the organs taken from the captured Samples bamboo rats. In all six bamboo rats, P. marneffei was Area Soil Root Petiole Leaves Debris of food Stool cultured from lungs. Cultures of the liver and the spleen Chaozhou 1/6 1/6 – 0/7 – 2/4 from five rats yielded P. marneffei. However, only one Qingyuan 2/6 0/6 0/4 0/6 0/4 0/2 kidney tissue culture produced P. marneffei. None of the Zhaoqing 1/8 1/8 0/4 0/8 – 2/6 cultures from the intestine, lymph node, and embryo or Meizhou 0/10 2/8 0/8 0/8 0/2 1/8 Shaoguan 1/11 0/9 0/10 0/11 0/7 1/7 amniotic fluid yielded the fungus (Table 3). Figure 2D–K Total 5/41 4/37 0/26 0/40 0/13 6/27 shows that the colonies of P. marneffei isolated from the lungs, the liver, the spleen and the kidney grew at 25°C and 37°C with a characteristic red diffused pigment at The isolation of P. marneffei from environment 25°C and growing as yeast form at 37°C. Among the total 184 samples obtained from the natural environment of Guangdong province, the isolated rate of Discussion P. marneffei was 5/41 in soil, 4/37 in root, 0/27 in petiole, 0/40 in leaves, 0/13 in debris of food and 6/27 in stool In this investigation, we selected six different areas in the respectively (Table 2). Most of the positive isolates natural environment, located in the east, west, middle and were recovered from different areas. As data showed, north of Guangdong province. A total of 270 samples P. marneffei can be isolated from the soil and the root were collected and 16 samples among them were positive nearby the burrow, but was not recovered in the petiole, for P.
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