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| Author(s): |
Monica Romero Solorio
Total Authors: 1
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| Document type: | Doctoral Thesis |
| Press: | São Paulo. |
| Institution: | Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia (FMVZ/SBD) |
| Defense date: | 2015-02-10 |
| Examining board members: |
Fernando Ferreira;
José Soares Ferreira Neto;
Silvia Neri Godoy;
Marcos Bryan Heinemann;
Mônica Mafra Valença Montenegro
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| Advisor: | Fernando Ferreira; Wilson Roberto Spironello |
| Abstract | |
In past decades, numerous studies have highlighted how urban expansion, habitat fragmentation, deforestation, and superposition of human and wildlife population areas contribute to surges in emergent and reemergent diseases. As a result of continuing anthropogenic disturbance in the Amazon, wildlife populations find themselves increasingly exposed to human populations and their domestic animals, bringing higher risks of transmission of a variety of infectious agents. Manaus, located in the Brazilian Amazon, represents a potentially useful model to understand the mechanisms of disease transmission. The city has undergone a disorganized and precipitous growth with ongoing industrial development, causing constant landscape alteration. Because non-human primates are closely evolutionary related to humans they share a diversity of infectious agents. The present study proposes to use subpopulations of Pied tamarins (Saguinus bicolor) occupying urban forest fragments in Manaus as a flagship species to evaluate the presence of infectious agents at the human-nonhuman primate interface. It will also assess whether anthropogenic perturbation at sites favors transmission of agents within this human dominated matrix. During the period of 2011-2014 a total of 55 pied tamarins in 9 urban forest fragments and 1 control area. Molecular analyses were performed for the detection of Rotavirus, Hantavirus, Coronavirus, Flavivirus, Enterovirus, Influenza A, Adenovirus, Metapneumovirus, Sincytial Human Respiratory virus, Parainfluenza 1, 2, 3, 4, West Nile Virus and Plasmodium spp. The results indicate prevalence for Hantavirus (n =4/48) and Rotavirus (n =9/48). This is the first record of Hantavirus in neotropical primates. Data indicate that the presence of infection in the study sites could be associated with anthropogenic impact. The control area resulted uninfected. (AU) | |