Leishmania diversity in bats from an endemic area for visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in Southeastern Brazil

dc.creatorVieira, Thallyta Maria
dc.creatorSilva, Soraia de Oliveira
dc.creatorLima, Luciana
dc.creatorSabino-Santos, Gilberto
dc.creatorDuarte, Eduardo Robson
dc.creatorLima, Sabrina Miranda
dc.creatorPereira, Agnes Antônia Sampaio
dc.creatorFerreira, Francisco C
dc.creatorAraújo, Walter Santos de
dc.creatorTeixeira, Marta Maria Geraldes
dc.creatorUrsine, Renata Luiz
dc.creatorGontijo, Célia Maria Ferreira
dc.creatorMelo, Maria Norma
dc.date2023-01-18T14:29:00Z
dc.date2023-01-18T14:29:00Z
dc.date2022
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-26T20:55:25Z
dc.date.available2023-09-26T20:55:25Z
dc.identifierVIEIRA, Thallyta Maria et al. Leishmania diversity in bats from an endemic area for visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in Southeastern Brazil. Acta Trop., v. 228, 106327, 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2022.106327.
dc.identifier0001-706X
dc.identifierhttps://www.arca.fiocruz.br/handle/icict/56495
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8866226
dc.descriptionThis study aimed to determine the occurrence of Leishmania infection in bats in urban and wild areas in an endemic municipality for visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Between April 2014 to April 2015, 247 bats were captured and classified into 26 species belonging to Phyllostomidae (90.7%), Vespertilionidae (8.1%) and Molossidae (1.2%) families. Blood samples from 247 bats were collected and submitted to nested-PCR, targeting the variable V7-V8 region of the SSU rRNA gene, followed by sequencing of the PCR product. The overall infection rate of Leishmania spp. in bats was 4.4%. Of the eleven bats infected, ten were frugivorous bats: Artibeus planirostris (8/11), Artibeus lituratus (1/11) and Artibeus cinereus (1/11) and one a nectarivorous bat (Glossophaga soricina). None of the individuals exhibited macroscopic alterations in the skin, spleen or liver. Phylogenetic analysis separated Leishmania species in clades corresponding to the subgenera Viannia, Leishmania, and Mundinia, and supported that the isolates characterized in the present study clustered closely with Leishmania (Viannia) sp., Leishmania (Leishmania) infantum and Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis. Here we report for the first time the bat Artibeus cinereus as a host of Leishmania (Leishmania) amazonensis. In the study we found that the mean abundance of bats did not differ in wild habitats and urban areas and that bat-parasite interactions were similarly distributed in the two environments. On the other hand, further studies should be conducted in more recent times to verify whether there have been changes in these parameters.
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.rightsrestricted access
dc.subjectChiroptera
dc.subjectInteraction networks
dc.subjectOne health
dc.subjectSSU rRNA
dc.subjectSSUrRNA
dc.subjectTrypanosomatids
dc.titleLeishmania diversity in bats from an endemic area for visceral and cutaneous leishmaniasis in Southeastern Brazil
dc.typeArticle


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