Martins da Costa Pedro Starling Pereira, Oliveira Jaqueline Silva, Domingos Iago José da Silva, E Silva Pedro Henrique Bastos, Dutra Ana Gabriella Stoffella, Amaral Carolina Dourado, Abrahão Jônatas Santos, Richini Pereira Virgínia Bodelão, Kroon Erna Geessien, Barbosa Costa Galileu, Trindade Giliane de Souza
Laboratório de Vírus, Departamento de Microbiologia, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Av Antônio Carlos, Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
Bauru II Regional Laboratory Center, Adolfo Lutz Institute, Bauru, São Paulo, Brazil.
Transbound Emerg Dis. 2020 Sep;67(5):1781-1785. doi: 10.1111/tbed.13537. Epub 2020 Mar 21.
We evaluated 345 wild animals from southern and south-eastern Brazil to understand their role in vaccinia virus (VACV) transmission cycle. VACV DNA was detected in rodents, marsupials, chiroptera and cingulate, expanding the knowledge of VACV host range in wildlife that could potentially act as source of infection in rural and urban areas.
我们评估了来自巴西南部和东南部的345只野生动物,以了解它们在痘苗病毒(VACV)传播循环中的作用。在啮齿动物、有袋动物、翼手目动物和贫齿目动物中检测到了VACV DNA,这扩展了我们对VACV在野生动物中的宿主范围的认识,这些野生动物有可能成为农村和城市地区的感染源。