Doenças transmitidas pelo ar e pela água

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Absence of Anaplasmataceae DNA in Wild Birds and Bats from a Flooded Area in the Brazilian Northern Pantanal

Luana Gabriela Ferreira dos Santos, Tatiana Ometto, Jansen de Araújo, Luciano Matsumya Thomazelli, Leticia Pinto Borges, Dirceu Guilherme Ramos, Edison Luis Durigon, Joao Batista Pinho and Daniel Moura de Aguiar

Birds and bats can be considered potential transmitters of some tick-borne diseases, since eventually they carry infected ticks in areas where transit. Pantanal ecosystem is the largest tropical wetland area of the world with more than 582 recorded avian species, contributing to the maintenance of different tick species. The aim of this study was to examine altogether 152 blood samples of several bird and bat species collected in a large flooded area of Pantanal for the presence of members from genera Ehrlichia, Anaplasma and Neorickettsia. None PCR product was obtained, what suggest that wild, domestic birds and bats from Pantanal region are unlikely to play a significant role in the maintenance of tick-borne agents and DNA survey from this species in birds may not be a reliable indicator of exposure.