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Identification of Bacterial Infection in Neotropical Primates

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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.

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This work was supported by the Rio de Janeiro state agency FAPERJ (Brazil) (grant no. E26/11.388/2012—Apoio ao Estudo da Biodiversidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro-2012- Biota-RJ) and in part by the Brazilian federal agencies CNPq and CAPES (Brazil). The authors would like to thank Dr. Miguel A. M. Moreira for sampling/analyses support; Dr. Carlos Guerra Schrago for the thoughtful review; Ms. Maria de Fátima S. Cardoso, Mr. Luiz F. P. Frade, and Mr. Sílvio P. Nascimento for excellent technical assistance; and Dr. Nordin S. Zeidner (CDC/Division of Vector-Borne Infectious Diseases, USA) for constructive comments.

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  1. Laboratório de Genética Molecular de Eucariontes e Simbiontes, Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Ilha do Fundão, CCS, Bloco A, Lab. A2-120, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, CEP 21944-970, Brazil

    Andre Menezes-Costa & Carlos A. G. Soares

  2. Lab. Referência Nacional em Vetores das Riquetsioses, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz−FioCruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Erik Machado-Ferreira

  3. Laboratório de Biologia Teórica e Aplicada, Departamento de Genética, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  4. Instituto Nacional do Câncer/Divisão de Genética, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Cibele R. Bonvicino, Hector N. Seuánez & Orilio Leoncini

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Menezes-Costa, A., Machado-Ferreira, E., Voloch, C.M. et al. Identification of Bacterial Infection in Neotropical Primates. Microb Ecol 66, 471–478 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00248-013-0257-5

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