1. Molecular Epidemiology of Trypanosomatids and Trypanosoma cruzi in Primates from Peru
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Esar Aysanoa, Carlos León González, Julio A. Ventocilla, Jocelyn G. Pérez, E. Angelo Morales, Andres G. Lescano, Carlos M. Zariquiey, Pedro Mayor, Mark Bowler, G. Christian Baldeviano, and A. Patricia Mendoza
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Animals, Wild/parasitology ,Primates ,0301 basic medicine ,Trypanosoma ,purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.05 [https] ,Epidemiology ,Trypanosoma cruzi ,Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis ,030231 tropical medicine ,030106 microbiology ,Prevalence ,Animals, Wild ,Context (language use) ,Trypanosoma cruzi/genetics ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Article ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,Peru ,parasitic diseases ,Cebidae ,Animals ,Humans ,Trypanosomatids ,Non-human primates ,Disease Reservoirs ,Molecular Epidemiology ,Ecology ,biology ,Molecular epidemiology ,Trypanosomiasis, Bovine ,biology.organism_classification ,Virology ,Trypanosomiasis, Bovine/epidemiology ,Animal ecology ,Chagas ,Primates/parasitology ,Trypanosoma/genetics ,Cattle ,Sylvatic cycle ,Disease Reservoirs/parasitology ,Peru/epidemiology ,Nested polymerase chain reaction - Abstract
We determined the prevalence rate and risk of infection of Trypanosoma cruzi and other trypanosomatids in Peruvian non-human primates (NHPs) in the wild (n = 126) and in different captive conditions (n = 183). Blood samples were collected on filter paper, FTA cards, or EDTA tubes and tested using a nested PCR protocol targeting the 24Sα rRNA gene. Main risk factors associated with trypanosomatid and T. cruzi infection were genus and the human-animal context (wild vs captive animals). Wild NHPs had higher prevalence of both trypanosomatids (64.3 vs 27.9%, P
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- 2017
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