Is the free-ranging jaguar (Panthera onca) a reservoir for Cytauxzoon felis in Brazil?
| Autor: | Rahel Sollmann, Sueli Akemi Taniwaki, Betina Metzger, Natália Mundim Tôrres, Mariana Malzoni Furtado, José Soares Ferreira Neto, Anah Tereza de Almeida Jácomo, Leandro Silveira, Karina dos Santos Paduan, Grasiela Edith de Oliveira Porfírio, Helena Lucia O’Dwyer |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Jaguar Conservation Fund/Instituto Onça-Pintada, Universidade de São Paulo (USP), Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp), Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU), University of California Davis |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
Veterinary medicine Jaguar 030231 tropical medicine Babesia Wildlife Cat Diseases Microbiology Piroplasmida 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Dogs EPIDEMIOLOGIA VETERINÁRIA biology.animal Babesiosis parasitic diseases RNA Ribosomal 18S media_common.cataloged_instance Animals Panthera Dog Diseases Protozoan Infections Animal Phylogeny media_common Disease Reservoirs CATS Wild felids biology Amazon rainforest Felis Hemoparasite Domestic cat Panthera onca Sequence Analysis DNA 030108 mycology & parasitology DNA Protozoan biology.organism_classification Cytauxzoon Canis lupus familiaris Infectious Diseases Insect Science Cats Parasitology Female Brazil Piroplasm |
| Zdroj: | Scopus Repositório Institucional da UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) instacron:UNESP Repositório Institucional da USP (Biblioteca Digital da Produção Intelectual) Universidade de São Paulo (USP) instacron:USP |
| Popis: | Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T17:09:45Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-06-01 Earthwatch Institute This study investigated the occurrence of Cytauxzoon felis and Babesia spp. in free-ranging jaguars (Panthera onca), domestic dogs (Canis lupus familiaris) and domestic cats (Felis catus) from the Cerrado, Amazon and Pantanal biomes of Brazil. Blood samples were collected from 30 jaguars, 129 dogs and 22 cats for detection of the 18S rRNA genes of piroplasmids. All of the jaguars from the Pantanal (n = 22) and Cerrado (n = 4) and three of four jaguars from the Amazon were positive for C. felis, but no dogs or cats were positive for the agent. All of the jaguars and domestic cats were negative for Babesia spp., while dogs from the Cerrado (7.9%; 5/63) and Amazon (10.6%; 5/47) biomes tested positive for the hemoparasite. Cytauxzoon nucleotide sequences detected were closely related to C. felis; and Babesia nucleotide sequences showed 100% of identity with Babesia vogeli. Although the pathogenicity of Cytauxzoon spp. genotypes that circulate in Brazil is still unknown, free-ranging jaguars probably play an important role in the maintenance of C. felis in nature. In addition, even though there is no evidence of the circulation of Babesia spp. between jaguars and dogs, the presence of this hemoparasite should be monitored in jaguar populations. Jaguar Conservation Fund/Instituto Onça-Pintada, Caixa Postal 193 Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva e Saúde Animal Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia Universidade de São Paulo, Av. Prof. Dr. Orlando Marques de Paiva, 87 Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu UNESP—Universidade Estadual Paulista Campus de Botucatu Departamento de Parasitologia, Distrito de Rubião Júnior Instituto de Biologia Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Rua Ceará, s/n Department of Wildlife Fish and Conservation Biology University of California Davis, 1088 Academic Surge, One Shields Ave Instituto de Biociências de Botucatu UNESP—Universidade Estadual Paulista Campus de Botucatu Departamento de Parasitologia, Distrito de Rubião Júnior |
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