Article
Identification of Bacterial Infection in Neotropical Primates
Registro en:
COSTA, Andre Menezes; et al. Identification of Bacterial Infection in Neotropical Primates. Microb Ecol., v.66, p.471–478, 2013.
0095-3628
10.1007/s00248-013-0257-5
1432-184X
Autor
Costa, Andre Menezes
Ferreira, Erik Machado
Voloch, Carolina M.
Bonvicino, Cibele R.
Seuánez, Hector N.
Leoncini, Orilio
Soares, Carlos A. G.
Resumen
Emerging infectious diseases usually arise from
wild animal populations. In the present work, we performed
a screening for bacterial infection in natural populations of
New World primates. The blood cell bulk DNAs from 181
individuals of four Platyrrhini genera were PCR screened for
eubacterial 16S rRNA genes. Bacteria were detected and
identified in 13 distinct individuals of Alouatta belzebul,
Alouatta caraya, and Cebus apella monkeys from geographically
distant regions in the states of Mato Grosso and Pará,
Brazil. Sequence analyses showed that these Platyrrhini bacteria
are closely related not only to human pathogens Pseudomonas
spp. but also to Pseudomonas simiae and sheep-
Acari infecting Pseudomonas spp. The identified Pseudomonas
possibly represents a group of bacteria circulating in
natural monkey populations.