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Discovery of a new Hepatozoon species namely Hepatozoon viperoi sp. nov. in nose-horned vipers in Türkiye
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Journal Article
Discovery of a new Hepatozoon species namely Hepatozoon viperoi sp. nov. in nose-horned vipers in Türkiye
2023
Overview
Although
Hepatozoon
spp. remains the most prevalent intracellular protozoa infecting snakes, it was reported only in a few snake species of the Colubridae family in Türkiye. Moreover, studies on these hemoparasites are not available in venomous nose-horned vipers from Türkiye. In this study, we investigated
Hepatozoon
spp. in three individual
Vipera ammodytes
using morphological and molecular methods. Our results were positive for intraerythrocytic
Hepatozoon
spp. gamonts in all three snakes, exhibiting low parasitemia. The microscopic findings were further confirmed through molecular data. A genus-specific PCR assay targeting the 18S rRNA gene region of
Hepatozoon
spp., was performed using HemoF/HemoR and Hep300/Hep900 primers. The obtained sequences were concatenated and used in phylogenetic analyses in comparison with different
Hepatozoon
species. Although our (OP377741) isolate was separated into a different branch, it was clustered with the isolates of
H. massardi
(KC342526),
H. cevapii
(KC342525), and
H. annulatum
(ON262426) from Brazilian snakes. Moreover, gene similarity and pair-wise distance between our isolate and other
Hepatozoon
species infecting snakes were found to be 89.30–98.63% and 0.009–0.077, respectively. Hence, we reported a new species of
Hepatozoon
, namely
Hepatozoon viperoi
sp. nov. infecting
V. ammodytes
. Since the literature does not indicate the existence of such a
Hepatozoon
species in
V. ammodytes
in different countries, our data may contribute to the expanding knowledge of
Hepatozoon
species in snakes, providing new insights into the biodiversity of the haemogregarine protozoan parasite.
