Hemotropic mycoplasma in a free-ranging black howler monkey (Alouatta caraya) in Brazil

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Date

2013-07-01

Registration in:

Journal of Wildlife Diseases, v. 49, n. 3, p. 728-731, 2013.

0090-3558

http://hdl.handle.net/11449/75882

10.7589/2012-06-159

WOS:000321798500037

2-s2.0-84879163220

1817946671090010

http://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/2562458

Author

Itaipu Hydroelectric Company

Federal University of Parana

IDEXX Laboratories Inc.

University of California

Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)

University of Illinois

Institutions

Universidade Estadual Paulista (Brasil)

Abstract

Hemotropic mycoplasmas are bacteria that infect erythrocytes and cause subclinical infections to life-threatening disease. We describe hemotropic mycoplasma infection in a free-ranging black howler monkey (Alouatta caraya). This is the first molecular detection of a hemotropic mycoplasma in a nonhuman primate from Brazil. © Wildlife Disease Association 2013.