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| Scarcelli,Eliana; Piatti,Rosa Maria; Fedullo,José Daniel Luzes; Simon,Faiçal; Cardoso,Maristela Vasconcellos; Castro,Vanessa; Miyashiro,Simone; Genovez,Margareth Élide. |
| Leptospirosis is a widely distributed zoonosis that affects domestic and wild animals, and that has the man as the end point of its epidemiological chain. Leptospirosis diagnosis in primates is more difficult than in other animal species, as clinical signs and lesions are less evident and antibody response is detected only for short periods. The aim of this article was to describe the detection of Leptospira spp using polymerase chain reaction (PCR), in clinical samples from one captive black-capped Capuchin monkey (Cebus apella), which presented characteristics compatible with leptospirosis (jaundice and haemorrhagic kdney) in the macroscopic post-mortem examination. A friable kidney fragment and urine sample were cultured and submitted to experimental... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Leptospirosis; Nonhuman primate; PCR; Cebus apella. |
| Ano: 2003 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1517-83822003000200010 |
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