Molecular detection of arthropod-borne agents in domestic cats from Fundação Parque Zoológico de São Paulo, São Paulo, and Campo Grande city, Mato Grosso do Sul

• Grant number: 13/09889-0
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Duration: July 01, 2013 - June 30, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Preventive Veterinary Medicine
• Principal Investigator: Marcos Rogério André
• Grantee: Marcos Rogério André
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias (FCAV). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Jaboticabal. Jaboticabal , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Rosangela Zacarias Machado

Abstract

Nowadays, the presence of domestic animals in wild environments, and vice-versa, has facilitated the dissemination of pathogens in new hosts and areas. Anaplasmataceae agents, such as Ehrlichia canis e Anaplasma phagocytophilum, can parasitized domestic and wild felines. Intra-erythrocytic piroplasms, such as Babesia felis, B. cati, B. canis canis e B. canis presentii parasitize domestic cats; on the other hand, B. felis, B. herpailuri, B. pantherae and B. leo can parasitize wild felids. Cytauxzoon felis can cause severe disease in cats, resulting often in death. Hemoplasmas (hemotrophic mycoplasmas) comprise bacteria that infect erythrocytes are responsable for feline infectious anemia. Bartonella species, gram-negative bacteria which circulate between felids and invertebrate hosts, infect erythrocytes and endothelial cells, causing ocasionally disease in human beings. Felids can acquire Hepatozoon sp. through ingestion of oocysts-infected ticks. Few reports have been done about the ocurrence of tick-borne agents in felids in Brazil. The first study of the present work aims to verify if those supracited agents, recently detected in wild felids maintained in captivity in Brazilian zoos, also circulate among stray cats from Fundação Parque Zoológico de São Paulo, SP. The second study of the present work aims to detect the presence of hemoplasma and Bartonella spp. DNA in roaming and domestic cats blood samples from Campo Grande, Mato Grosso do Sul. (AU)

Scientific publications

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(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

ANDRE, MARCOS ROGERIO; HERRERA, HEITOR MIRAGLIA; FERNANDES, SIMONE DE JESUS; MARQUES DE SOUSA, KEYLA CARTENS; GONCALVES, LUIZ RICARDO; DOMINGOS, IARA HELENA; DE MACEDO, GABRIEL CARVALHO; MACHADO, ROSANGELA ZACARIAS. Tick-borne agents in domesticated and stray cats from the city of Campo Grande, state of Mato Grosso do Sul, midwestern Brazil. TICKS AND TICK-BORNE DISEASES, v. 6, n. 6, p. 779-786, 2015. (13/09889-0)

ANDRE, MARCOS ROGERIO; BACCARIM DENARDI, NATHANI CRISTINA; MARQUES DE SOUSA, KEYLA CARSTENS; GONCALVES, LUIZ RICARDO; HENRIQUE, PALOMA CANEDO; GROSSE ROSSI ONTIVERO, CLAUDIA REGINA; LIMA GONZALEZ, IRYS HANY; CABRAL NERY, CAROLINA VAZ; FERNANDES CHAGAS, CAROLINA ROMEIRO; MONTICELLI, CAUE; et al. Arthropod-borne pathogens circulating in free-roaming domestic cats in a zoo environment in Brazil. TICKS AND TICK-BORNE DISEASES, v. 5, n. 5, p. 545-551, 2014. (13/09889-0)

ANDRE, MARCOS ROGERIO; DUMLER, JOHN STEPHEN; HERRERA, HEITOR M.; GONCALVES, LUIZ R.; DE SOUSA, KEYLA C. M.; SCORPIO, DIANA GERARDI; GABRIELA ALEXANDRE DE SANTIS, ANA CLAUDIA; DOMINGOS, IARA HELENA; DE MACEDO, GABRIEL CARVALHO; MACHADO, ROSANGELA ZACARIAS. Assessment of a quantitative 5' nuclease real-time polymerase chain reaction using the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide dehydrogenase gamma subunit (nuoG) for Bartonella species in domiciled and stray cats in Brazil. JOURNAL OF FELINE MEDICINE AND SURGERY, v. 18, n. 10, p. 783-790, OCT 2016. (13/09889-0)

MARQUES DE SOUSA, KEYLA CARSTENS; HERRERA, HEITOR MIRAGLIA; DOMINGOS, IARA HELENA; VILELA CAMPOS, JOAO BOSCO; CAMPANELLI DOS SANTOS, ISABELA MARIA; NEVES, HAROLDO HENRIQUE; MACHADO, ROSANGELA ZACARIAS; ANDRE, MARCOS ROGERIO. Detecção sorológica de Toxoplasma gondii, Leishmania infantum e Neospora caninum em gatos de uma área endêmica para leishmaniose no Brasil. Revista Brasileira de Parasitologia Veterinária, v. 23, n. 4, p. 449-455, OCT-DEC 2014. (13/09889-0)