Didelphis albiventris naturally infected with Hepatozoon canis in southeastern Brazil
| Autor: | Carlos Roberto Teixeira, Helio Langoni, Lucia Helena O’Dwyer, Maria Regina Lucas da Silva, Felipe Fornazari, Larissa de Castro Demoner |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp) |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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0301 basic medicine
Reservoir host Nymph Veterinary medicine Ixodidae Haemogregarine Microbiology Didelphis albiventris 03 medical and health sciences Flea Infestations Opossum Didelphis Eucoccidiida parasitic diseases medicine Sequencing Animals Ornithodoros Phylogeny Tick-borne disease Hepatozoon canis biology Coccidiosis Sequence Analysis DNA 030108 mycology & parasitology biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Molecular analysis Tick Infestations Hepatozoon Synantropic animal 030104 developmental biology Infectious Diseases Canis Insect Science Larva Siphonaptera Parasitology Ctenocephalides Brazil |
| Zdroj: | Scopus Repositório Institucional da UNESP Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP) instacron:UNESP |
| ISSN: | 1877-9603 |
| Popis: | Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T17:13:24Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-10-01 Hepatozoon species are vector-borne pathogens that infect domestic and wild animals. Marsupials of the species Didelphis albiventris are adapted to urban and peri-urban areas and act as reservoir hosts for several parasites. The present study evaluated the occurrence of infection by Hepatozoon species in synantropic D. albiventris from Botucatu, São Paulo, Brazil. Blood samples and ectoparasites from 19 D. albiventris were collected from urban and peri-urban areas. Hepatozoon spp. detection was performed by microscopy and molecular analysis. One opossum was positive for Hepatozoon spp. in microscopy analysis and PCR, while another animal was positive only in PCR. The obtained sequences were 100% identical to Hepatozoon canis. Six species of ticks and two species of fleas were detected on D. albiventris. This is the first report of H. canis in synantropic D. albiventris. In Brazil, H. canis transmission among dog populations is not well established, which highlights the importance of investigating the role that opossums might play in the epidemiology of this protozoan. Instituto de Biociências UNESP-Univ Estadual Paulista Campus de Botucatu Departamento de Parasitologia, Distrito de Rubião Junior Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia UNESP-Univ Estadual Paulista Campus de Botucatu, Distrito de Rubião Junior Instituto de Biociências UNESP-Univ Estadual Paulista Campus de Botucatu Departamento de Parasitologia, Distrito de Rubião Junior Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia UNESP-Univ Estadual Paulista Campus de Botucatu, Distrito de Rubião Junior |
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