Epidemiology and genetic diversity of microorganisms and its implications to public health

• Grant number: 15/17519-4
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: December 01, 2015
• End date: May 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Health Sciences - Collective Health - Public Health
• Principal Investigator: Virgínia Bodelão Richini Pereira
• Grantee: Virgínia Bodelão Richini Pereira
• Host Institution: Instituto Adolfo Lutz (IAL). Coordenadoria de Controle de Doenças (CCD). Secretaria da Saúde (São Paulo - Estado). São Paulo , SP, Brazil

Abstract

Emerging and reemerging infectious diseases is driven by various anthropogenic factors and the search for pathogens in human and animal samples may offer new opportunities for eco-epidemiological studies as well as for supplying insights about the pathogen's evolution. Molecular tools have been proposed as highly sensitive and specific and have been increasingly used in epidemiological studies of pathogens. The present work aims to evaluate the occurrence of important microorganisms in public health, in road-killed animals and from diagnostic routine samples. The phenotypic and genotypic data will be correlated. Thus, it is possible to evaluate the species of microorganisms in human and animal samples, looking for those that meet certain circulating focuses of the disease transmission in order to identify differences between the species in positive samples, comparing the genomes and evaluating the interactions of the host, pathogen and environment. The knowledge of the distribution of these pathogens will allow to take preventive measures to new cases of infection. (AU)

Scientific publications

(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)

LOSNAK, DEBORA O.; ROCHA, FRANCIELLE R.; ALMEIDA, BARBARA S.; BATISTA, KEILA Z. S.; ALTHOFF, SERGIO L.; HAUPT, JOSIANE; RUIZ, LUCIANA S.; ANVERSA, LAIS; LUCHEIS, SIMONE B.; PAIZ, LAIS M.; et al. Molecular detection of fungi of public health importance in wild animals from Southern Brazil. MYCOSES, v. 61, n. 7, p. 455-463, JUL 2018. (15/17519-4)