Molecular detection and characterization of Astrovirus in cattle from the northeastern region of Sao Paulo State and southwestern region of Minas Gerais State

• Grant number: 12/18441-0
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Master
• Effective date (Start): January 01, 2013
• Effective date (End): July 31, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Agronomical Sciences - Veterinary Medicine - Preventive Veterinary Medicine
• Principal researcher: Ricardo Luiz Moro de Sousa
• Grantee: Marcelo Candido
• Home Institution: Faculdade de Zootecnia e Engenharia de Alimentos (FZEA). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Pirassununga , SP, Brazil

Abstract

The enteric diseases associated with diarrhea, dehydration and weight loss are a major health problem of cattle worldwide, contributing to significant morbidity and mortality especially among newborns. In this context, demands for improving the laboratory diagnosis of infectious enteric diseases became constant, given the economic losses involved. Bovine astrovirus is among the major viral enteropathogens of worldwide distribution and recent history on which the studies in Brazil remain incipient. Therefore, investigations based on the detection of bovine astrovirus circulating in São Paulo and Minas Gerais States, particularly in the contiguous São Paulo Northeast and Minas Gerais Southwest regions, are important to understand the possible distribution of this virus with direct consequences on the etiology and epidemiology of viral enteric diseases of cattle in these regions. In this sense, this project aims the molecular detection and characterization of bovine astrovirus, using bovine stool samples collected from diarrheic and non-diarrheic animals of different ages.

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)

CANDIDO, M.; ALMEIDA-QUEIROZ, S. R.; BUZINARO, M. G.; LIVONESI, M. C.; FERNANDES, A. M.; SOUSA, R. L. M. Detection and molecular characterisation of bovine Enterovirus in Brazil: four decades since the first report. EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION, v. 147, 2019. Web of Science Citations: 0.

NAVARRO, JULIANA DE OLIVEIRA; CANDIDO, MARCELO; DE ALMEIDA-QUEIROZ, SABRINA RIBEIRO; BUZINARO, MARIA DA GLORIA; LIVONESI, MARCIA CRISTINA; FERNANDES, ANDREZZA MARIA; MORO DE SOUSA, RICARDO LUIZ. Genetic diversity of bovine Picobirnavirus, Brazil. VIRUS GENES, v. 54, n. 5, p. 724-728, OCT 2018. Web of Science Citations: 2.

CANDIDO, MARCELO; AGRA BATINGA, MARIA CRYSKELY; FARIAS ALENCAR, ANNA LUIZA; DE ALMEIDA-QUEIROZ, SABRINA RIBEIRO; BUZINARO, MARIA DA GLORIA; LIVONESI, MARCIA CRISTINA; FERNANDES, ANDREZZA MARIA; MORO DE SOUSA, RICARDO LUIZ. Molecular characterization and genetic diversity of bovine Kobuvirus, Brazil. VIRUS GENES, v. 53, n. 1, p. 105-110, FEB 2017. Web of Science Citations: 8.

CANDIDO, M.; ALENCAR, A. L. F.; ALMEIDA-QUEIROZ, S. R.; BUZINARO, M. G.; MUNIN, F. S.; GODOY, S. H. S.; LIVONESI, M. C.; FERNANDES, A. M.; SOUSA, R. L. M. First detection and molecular characterization of Nebovirus in Brazil. EPIDEMIOLOGY AND INFECTION, v. 144, n. 9, p. 1876-1878, JUL 2016. Web of Science Citations: 8.

CANDIDO, MARCELO; FARIAS ALENCAR, ANNA LUIZA; ALMEIDA-QUEIROZ, SABRINA R.; BUZINARO, MARIA DA GLORIA; MUNIN, FLAVIA SIMONE; SERAPHIN DE GODOY, SILVIA HELENA; LIVONESI, MARCIA CRISTINA; FERNANDES, ANDREZZA MARIA; MORO DE SOUSA, RICARDO LUIZ. Molecular detection and phylogenetic analysis of bovine astrovirus in Brazil. ARCHIVES OF VIROLOGY, v. 160, n. 6, p. 1519-1525, JUN 2015. Web of Science Citations: 8.