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| Autor(es): |
Pena, H. F. J.
[1]
;
Marvulo, M. F. V.
[2]
;
Horta, M. C.
[3]
;
Silva, M. A.
[2]
;
Silva, J. C. R.
[4, 2]
;
Siqueira, D. B.
;
Lima, P. -A. C. P.
;
Vitaliano, S. N.
[1]
;
Gennari, S. M.
[1]
Número total de Autores: 9
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| Afiliação do(s) autor(es): | [1] Univ Sao Paulo, Fac Med Vet & Zootecnia, Dept Med Vet Prevent & Saude Anim, Sao Paulo - Brazil
[2] Inst Brasileiro Med Conservacao, Recife, PE - Brazil
[3] Univ Fed Vale Sao Francisco, Colegiado Med Vet, Petrolina, PE - Brazil
[4] Univ Fed Rural Pernambuco, Recife, PE - Brazil
Número total de Afiliações: 4
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| Tipo de documento: | Artigo Científico |
| Fonte: | Veterinary Parasitology; v. 175, n. 3-4, p. 377-381, FEB 10 2011. |
| Citações Web of Science: | 34 |
| Resumo | |
Toxoplasma gondii isolates are highly diverse in domestic animals from Brazil. However, little is known about the genetics of this parasite from wild mammals in the same region. Reveal genetic similarity or difference of T. gondii among different animal populations is necessary for us to understand transmission of this parasite. Here we reported isolation and genetic characterisation of three T. gondii isolates from wild animals in Brazil. The parasite was isolated by bioassay in mice from tissues of a young male red handed howler monkey (Alouatta belzebul), an adult male jaguarundi (Puma yagouaroundi), and an adult female black-eared opossum (Didelphis aurita). The monkey and the jaguarundi had inhabited the Zoo of Parque Estadual Dois Irmaos, Pernambuco State, Northeastern Brazil, for 1 year and 8 years, respectively. The wild black-eared opossum was captured in Sao Paulo State, Southeastern Brazil, and euthanised for this study because it was seropositive for T. gondii (titre 1:100 by the modified agglutination test, MAT). Ten PCR-RFLP (Polymerase Chain Reaction-Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism) markers, SAG1, SAG2, SAG3, BTUB, GRA6, c22-8, c29-2, L358, PK1 and Apico, were used to genotype the isolates. T. gondii was isolated from the brain and heart homogenate of the monkey, the muscle homogenate of the jaguarundi, and the heart homogenate of the black-eared opossum. This was the first isolation of T. gondii from a neotropical fetid from Brazil. The isolate from the monkey (TgRhHmBr1) was not virulent in mice, whereas the isolates from the jaguarundi (TgJagBr1) and the black-eared opossum (TgOpBr1) were virulent in mice. The genotype of the isolate from the monkey has been identified in isolates from a goat and ten chickens in the same region of Brazil, suggesting that it may be a common lineage circulating in this region. The genotypes of the isolates from the jaguarundi and the black-eared opossum have not been previously reported. Although there are already 88 genotypes identified from a variety of animal hosts in Brazil, new genotypes are continuously being identified from different animal species, indicating an extremely high diversity of T. gondii in the population. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. (AU) | |
| Processo FAPESP: | 09/00175-0 - Isolamento e caracterização biológica e genotípica de Toxoplasma gondii em animais selvagens do Brasil |
| Beneficiário: | Sérgio Netto Vitaliano |
| Modalidade de apoio: | Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado |