LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Occurrence of Bartonella genotypes in bats and associated Streblidae flies from Maranhão state, northeastern Brazil

Braga, Maria do Socorro Costa Oliveira; Gonçalves, Luiz Ricardo; Silva, Thiago Merighi Vieira da; Costa, Francisco Borges; Pereira, José Gomes; Santos, Larissa Sarmento dos; Carvalho Neta, Alcina Vieira de; Arruda, Roberto Carlos Negreiros de; Mesquita, Eric Takashi Kamakura de Carvalho; Chaves, Daniel Prazeres; Melo, Ferdinan Almeida; Lopes, Jady Lima; Martins, Rayra Tayla Barbosa; Lima, Mauricio Souza; Amaral, Renan Bressianini do; Machado, Rosangela Zacarias; André, Marcos Rogério.

Rev. bras. parasitol. vet; 29 (4), 2020

Abstract Bartonella is a genus of emerging zoonotic bacteria that are mainly associated with mammalian erythrocytes and endothelial cells. Bats are natural reservoirs for a variety of important pathogens that impact human and animal health. Recent reports have highlighted the role of bats and bat flies i...

Infecciones por Bartonella/epidemiología, Infecciones por Bartonella/veterinaria, Bartonella/genética, Teorema de Bayes, Brasil/epidemiología, Quirópteros/microbiología, Dípteros/microbiología, Variación Genética, Genotipo, Filogenia

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Test for Borrelia spp. in bats in an urban area in the South of Brazil

Abstract INTRODUCTION: We investigated the occurrence of relapsing fever (RF) causing Borrelia genus spirochetes in synanthropic bats from the municipality of Maringá, Paraná, South of Brazil. METHODS: Tissue samples from the wings of bats were collected monthly from April 2013 to February 2014 and...