Data/hora: 06/06/2024 05:40:20

Provedor de dados: | 65
País: | Brazil
Título: | Detection of Toxoplasma gondii in a free-ranging giant anteater
Autores: | Morgado,Thais Oliveira; Kagueyama,Francielle Cristina; Rosa,Janaina Marcela Assunção; Belizário,Melissa Debesa; Pacheco,Richard de Campos; Dutra,Valéria; Corrêa,Sandra Helena Ramiro; Paz,Regina Celia Rodrigues da.
Data: | 2017-01-01
Ano: | 2017
Palavras-chave: | Myrmecophaga tridactyla; PCR; Modified agglutination test; Blood.
Resumo: | ABSTRACT: Toxoplasmosis is caused by Toxoplasma gondii, an obligatory intracellular protozoan, which establishes acute and chronic infections in birds and mammals, including humans. This note reports, for the first time, the detection and sequencing of DNA from T. gondii in the peripheral blood of a young free range giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla). For the diagnosis, the following methods were used: polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and positive serology (1:800) by means of the modified agglutination test (MAT). Since this species may be consumed by humans and predated by wild felids, its importance is emphasized as a probable source of zoonotic infection, in addition to its possible participation in the infection enzootic cycle. Although, parasitemia has been confirmed in this specimen, it presented no clinical sign of infection.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0103-84782017000800501
Editor: | Universidade Federal de Santa Maria
Relação: | 10.1590/0103-8478cr20161127
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Ciência Rural  v.47 n.8 2017
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess