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Evaluation of Rabies Virus in the Cerdocyon thous in the Atlantic Forest
Ana Paula Jejesky de Oliveir, Daniela Neris Nossa, Franciane Almeida da Silva, Thiago Farias Thiago Farias, Luiz Fernando Pereira Vieira, Karina Miranda Marinho, Fernando Vicentini, Jo o Luiz Rossi
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Received: December 10, 2017 | Published: January 9, 2018
Citation: Oliveir APJ, Nossa DN, Silva FA, Silva TF, Vieira LFP, et al. (2018) Evaluation of Rabies Virus in the Cerdocyon thous in the Atlantic Forest. J Microbiol Exp 6(1): 00179. DOI: 10.15406/jmen.2018.06.00179
Abstract
The ability of the virus to invade and sustain in a variety of mammalian hosts is an issue of serious concern and wild rabies may emerge as a new public health problem, due to its global distribution. In Latin America, countries are working to decrease the incidence of the virus by controlling the disease in domestic animals. The present study evaluated dead specimens of Cerdocyon thous due motor vehicles accidents on state highway ES-060. The study involved 16 crab-eating foxes with their necropsy examinations and their brain tissues were collected. Biological samples were identified, frozen and sent to the Rabies Diagnosis Laboratory of the Agricultural and Forestry Defense Institute of the State of Espírito Santo for further tests using direct immunofluorescence technique and biological test by intracerebral inoculation in Swiss mice. This is the first investigation of rabies virus in Cerdocyon thous from a region comprising of two biological reserves in south eastern Brazil, with negative results for all samples. Despite the absence of cases in the analyzed samples, improvements in the surveillance of rabies virus in wild animals can be pointed out, as the fauna research is still very small.
Keywords: Public health, Zonotic diseases, Wild carnivores, Conservation, Urbanization, Rhabdoviridae, Chiroptera, Mammalian, Crab, Cerdocyon thous, Diagnosis, Rabies, Intracerebral, Neurological, Decomposition, Putrefaction, Hematophagous, Virus
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