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Trypanosoma cruzi (kinetoplastida, Trypanosomatidae) genotypes in neotropical bats in Brazil by Cristiane Varella Lisboa; Ana Paula Pinho; Heitor Miraglia Herrera; Marconny Gerhardt; Elisa Cupolillo; Ana Maria Jansen is a Immunology and Microbiology article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Trypanosoma cruzi (kinetoplastida, Trypanosomatidae) genotypes in neotropical bats in Brazil about?
Few studies have been conducted to investigate the role played by the order Chiroptera in the sylvatic transmission cycle of Trypanosoma cruzi or their putative association with the main genotypes of the parasite. Here, the purpose was to enlarge the knowledge of this issue, in this sense, 93 specimens of bats included in 4 families, respectively Molossidae, Noctilionidae, Phyllostomidae and Vespertilionidae collected in distinct regions of Brazil were submitted to fresh blood smears and hemocultures. No patent parasitemia was observed but positive hemocultures by T. cruzi were observed in 14% (13/93) of examined samples. The majority of the parasite isolates were obtained from Phyllostomus hastatus (80%) captured in one same buriti hollow palm tree in the Cerrado region. Multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE) analyses showed that the genetic distance among these isolates was 0.35, almost the same observed when all the isolates (excluding the reference strains) were analyzed (0.40). No correlation of zymodeme with bat genera, species or geographic region of its origin could be observed, moreover, correlation of zymodeme and genotype of the parasite was not strict. Ten out of 14 T
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- Author
- Cristiane Varella Lisboa; Ana Paula Pinho; Heitor Miraglia Herrera; Marconny Gerhardt; Elisa Cupolillo; Ana Maria Jansen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0304-4017)
- Published
- 2008
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Immunology and Microbiology (Life Sciences)