First Detection of Toxoplasma gondii DNA in a Wild Bat from Colombia.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Toxoplasma gondii infections have been reported for many warm-blooded animals around the world including chiropterans. However, in Colombia, the country that holds the highest taxonomic richness of this order of mammals in the Neotropics, up to date there are no reports of T. gondii in bats (Carollia brevicauda).

Purpose

The objective of the present study was to detect T. gondii DNA from internal bat organs from Quindío, Colombia.

Results

We report the first detection of T. gondii DNA from internal bat organs in the department of Quindio, Central Andes of Colombia. Out of three silky short tail bat (Carollia brevicauda) specimens collected at the natural reserve "La Montaña del Ocaso", organs were recovered (lungs, liver, heart, kidneys, small and large i

SUBMITTER: Zamora-Velez A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7238717 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature