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Genetic Diversity of Bartonella spp. in Wild Mammals and Ectoparasites in Brazilian Pantanal.
Microbial ecology - 1 Aug 2018
de Sousa Keyla Carstens Marques, do Amaral Renan Bressianini, Herrera Heitor Miraglia, Santos Filipe Martins, Macedo Gabriel Carvalho, de Andrade Pinto Pedro Cordeiro Estrela, Barros-Battesti Darci Moraes, Machado Rosangela Zacarias, André Marcos Rogério
Abstract excerpt
The present work aimed to investigate the genetic diversity of Bartonella in mammals and ectoparasites in Pantanal wetland, Brazil. For this purpose, 31 Nasua nasua, 78 Cerdocyon thous, 7 Leopardus pardalis, 110 wild rodents, 30 marsupials, and 42 dogs were sampled. DNA samples were submitted to a quantitative real-time PCR assay (qPCR). Positive samples in qPCR were submitted to conventional PCR assays targeting...
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