Histomonosis: the disease, diagnosis, life cycle & immunity · the disease, diagnosis, life cycle &...
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Histomonosis:
the disease, diagnosis, life cycle & immunity
W.J.M. Landman
GD – Animal Health Service, Deventer, Netherlands
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Antihistomonals no more!
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The problem
• EU: ban on dimetridazole (May 2002) & nifursol
(April 2003)
• EU: exemption for nitarsone denied (April 2005)
No effective chemotherapeutics left!
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Histomonas meleagridis
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Worldwide distribution
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‘Standard’ inoculation dose of 200,000 histomonads/bird
In vivo study herbal products
Days post-inoculation
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35
% s
urv
ival
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
No feed additive
Dimetridazole
Histostat-50™
Protophyt™ SP
Enteroguard™
Protophyt™ B/SP
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Chickens reservoir
&
wild birds?
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Diagnosis
• Clinical signs
• Postmortem
• Liver & cecum lesions
• Fresh smears?
• Histopathology
• Eosinophilic bodies
• Immunohistochemistry
• In situ hybridization
• Serology
– ELISA’s
• Culture
• PCR
• Genotyping
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100 µ
Caecum tissue
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100 µ
Liver tissue
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Blocking-ELISA
E
E
positive negative
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Culture medium
• 85% medium 199 with
Hank’s salts
• 10% heat-inactivated
horse serum
• 5% chicken embryo
extract
• 10-12 mg organic
white rice flour
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40ºC
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200 x
Bürker-Türk
haematocytometer
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10%
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-1ºC/min
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-80ºC
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qPCR
• Primer & probe design:
– 31 H. meleagridis 5.8S rRNA DNA sequences
(GenBank) from 4 research groups
– Specificity: various trichomonad sequences
(GenBank)
– MGB probe
– 81 bp product
• AM1840 extraction kit (Ambion)
• Quantifast pathogen PCR kit (Qiagen)
• ABI 7500 fast and LightCycler 480 cyclers
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Results qPCR
• Successful detection reference isolate
• Detection limit: 330 histomonads/ml faeces
• 17 Dutch H. meleagridis (morphological
identification) isolates from chickens or turkeys
tested all positive
• A Tetratrichomonas gallinarum strain tested
negative
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Ribosomal gene cluster
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C-profiling
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H. meleagridis type III
Bar = 30 µm Genbank submission nrs. DQ350439-47
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Characteristics genotype III
• Distinct morphology
• Not culturable
• Not disease-associated
• ITS-1 sequences different (another species?)
• Different sequence 150 bp 3’ end SSU rRNA
gene
• Phylogenetic analysis: closely related to H.
meleagridis & D. fragilis
• P. wenrichi?
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H. meleagridis – life cycle
Turkey image by Terell Spencer, NCAT
?
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Inoculation
• Day 14
• Intracloacal
• 200.000 histomonads/bird
• 25% (10/40) poults
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Survival of H. meleagridis inoculated and contact turkey poults
Days post inoculation
0 3 6 9 12 15 18 21 24 27 30
Num
be
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g t
urk
eys
0
3
6
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15
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Inoculated - females (n = 5)
Inoculated - males (n = 5)
Contact - females (n = 15)
Contact - males (n = 15)
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Transmission parameters
• Mean latent period: 1.8 days (95%: 0.9 - 3.2)
• Mean infectious period
– until death: 13.6 days (7.1 - 20.7)
– until recovery: 6.0 days (4.3 - 8.8)
• Proportion dying from infection: 82% (66 - 93)
• R0 basic reproduction number: 5.0 (2.9 - 14.7)
• β transmission rate per day (estimated): 0.4
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Simulations
Transmission experiment
Transmission model
Experiment simulation
Flock outbreak simulation
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Five simulated outbreaks of H. meleagridis in a flock of 20,000 turkeys
Days post infection
0 20 40 60 80 100
Num
ber
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livin
g t
urk
eys
0
5000
10000
15000
20000
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Transmission
• Vector transmission
– Heterakis gallinarum
– Earthworm
• Direct transmission within flocks
– ‘Cloacal drinking’?
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Poultry Sci, 2009
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Attemps to induce histomonosis with cyst
stages failed (in our hands)
Oral & intracloacal inoculations
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Immunity
• Active
– Antibodies do not protect against reinfection
• Passive
– Serum immunized birds does not protect against
challenge
• Antibodies detected by ELISA
– Indirect
– Blocking
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Antibody detection field
• Unexpected high seroprevalence layers – 87% 37% (Grafl et al., 2011)
• Confirmed in 5 flocks – Culture
– PCR
• Importance of chickens as reservoir
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Is there hope at all?
Yes
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The effect of hanging
Histomoniasis
experiment 1
(%)
Histomoniasis
experiment 2
(%)
Chickens 15-25 90
Turkeys 60-80 100
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Thank you for your attention!
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