Emerging Microbes and Infections (Jan 2020)
Unexpected rabies variant identified in kinkajou (Potos flavus), Mato Grosso, Brazil
- Paulo Ricardo Dell’Armelina Rocha,
- Andres Velasco-Villa,
- Ernani Machado de Lima,
- Angela Salomoni,
- Alice Fusaro,
- Eunice da Conceição Souza,
- Risia Lopes Negreiros,
- Vera Lúcia Zafino,
- Gianpiero Zamperin,
- Stefania Leopardi,
- Isabella Monne,
- Paola De Benedictis
Affiliations
- Paulo Ricardo Dell’Armelina Rocha
- Graduate Program in Environmental and Experimental Pathology, Paulista University, São Paulo, Brazil
- Andres Velasco-Villa
- Poxvirus and Rabies Branch, Division of High-Consequence Pathogens and Pathology, National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC, Atlanta, GA, USA
- Ernani Machado de Lima
- Laboratorio de Apoio a Saude Animal (LASA), Complexo do Instituto de Defesa Agropecuaria do Estado de Mato Grosso, Cuiaba, Brazil
- Angela Salomoni
- FAO and National Reference Centre for rabies, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro (PD), Italy
- Alice Fusaro
- FAO and National Reference Centre for rabies, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro (PD), Italy
- Eunice da Conceição Souza
- Laboratorio de Apoio a Saude Animal (LASA), Complexo do Instituto de Defesa Agropecuaria do Estado de Mato Grosso, Cuiaba, Brazil
- Risia Lopes Negreiros
- Laboratorio de Apoio a Saude Animal (LASA), Complexo do Instituto de Defesa Agropecuaria do Estado de Mato Grosso, Cuiaba, Brazil
- Vera Lúcia Zafino
- Laboratorio de Apoio a Saude Animal (LASA), Complexo do Instituto de Defesa Agropecuaria do Estado de Mato Grosso, Cuiaba, Brazil
- Gianpiero Zamperin
- FAO and National Reference Centre for rabies, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro (PD), Italy
- Stefania Leopardi
- FAO and National Reference Centre for rabies, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro (PD), Italy
- Isabella Monne
- FAO and National Reference Centre for rabies, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro (PD), Italy
- Paola De Benedictis
- FAO and National Reference Centre for rabies, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Legnaro (PD), Italy
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1080/22221751.2020.1759380
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 9,
no. 1
pp. 851 – 854
Abstract
ABSTRACTA second case of a novel rabies variant described once in a capuchin monkey from Mato Grosso, Brazil, was discovered in a rabid wild kinkajou from the same region, indicating a public health risk following exposure to either of the two animals.
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