1. No evidence of SARS-CoV-2 infection in Neotropical Primates sampled during COVID-19 pandemic in Minas Gerais and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Aline Alves Scarpellini Campos, Alex Junio Jardim da Silva, Edmilson Moutinho dos Santos, Anaiá da Paixão Sevá, Cirilo Henrique de Oliveira, Claudia Maria Dornelles da Silva, Walter Octaviano Bernis Filho, Miguel de Souza Andrade, Giliane de Souza Trindade, Valéria Magro Octaviano Bernis, Filipe Vieira Santos de Abreu, Bergmann Morais Ribeiro, Fabrício Souza Campos, Marco Antônio Barreto de Almeida, Ana Cláudia Franco, Paulo Michel Roehe, Danilo Simonini Teixeira, Vinicius de Oliveira Ottone, Danilo Bretas de Oliveira, Jáder da Cruz Cardoso, Amanda Gonzales da Silva, George Rêgo Albuquerque, and Mariana Viana Macedo
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Primates ,2019-20 coronavirus outbreak ,spillover ,Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,Short Communication ,viruses ,Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) ,Zoology ,Biology ,medicine.disease_cause ,Pandemic ,medicine ,Animals ,Humans ,Alouatta ,Pandemics ,Coronavirus ,Ecology ,spillback ,nonhuman-primate ,SARS-CoV-2 ,fungi ,COVID-19 ,Callithrix ,Habitat ,Animal ecology ,Sylvatic cycle ,Brazil - Abstract
In 2019, a new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was detected in China. Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) was capable to infect domestic and captive mammals like cats, tigers and minks. Due to genetic similarities, concern about the infection of non-human primates (NHPs) and the establishment of a sylvatic cycle has grown in the Americas. In this study, neotropical primates (NP) were sampled in different areas from Brazil to investigate whether they were infected by SARS-CoV-2. A total of 89 samples from 51 NP of four species were examined. No positive samples were detected via RT-qPCR, regardless of the NHP species, tissue or habitat tested. This work provides the first report on the lack of evidence of the circulation of SARS-CoV-2 in NP. The expansion of wild animals sampling is necessary to understand their role in the epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 and other potentially zoonotic pathogens in natural environments shared by humans.
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- 2021