Pathogenic Leptospira Species in Bats: Molecular Detection in a Colombian Cave

Autor: Carlos Ramiro Silva-Ramos, Sandra M. Chala-Quintero, Álvaro A. Faccini-Martínez, Marylin Hidalgo, Adriana del Pilar Pulido-Villamarín, Jairo Pérez-Torres, Claudia Cuervo

Publikováno v: Tropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, Vol 7, Iss 6, p 84 (2022)

Leptospirosis is caused by pathogenic Leptospira spp., which can be found in nature among domestic and wild animals. In Colombia, the Macaregua cave is known for its bat richness; thus, because bats are reservoir hosts of human microbiological pathog

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/89d92bca509d497e9fc5d550e22dd260

Novel Borrelia genotypes in bats from the Macaregua Cave, Colombia

Autor: Sandra M Chala-Quintero, Álvaro A. Faccini-Martínez, Sebastián Muñoz-Leal, Claudia Cuervo, Maria Teresa Herrera-Sepúlveda, Marcelo Bahia Labruna, Jairo Pérez-Torres

Publikováno v: Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual)
Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
instacron:USP

Bats have been implicated as reservoirs of relapsing fever group spirochaetes since the beginning of the last century. Recently, bat-associated spirochaetes have been reported as human pathogens. In 1968, a spirochaete was detected in blood of the ba

Externí odkaz: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::bb24553ad96a45c26b1e15d6bc556146
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33226201