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ArticleRevista peruana de medicina experimental y salud publica

Molecular detection of the natural infection by trypanosomatid parasites in Didelphis marsupialis from a rural area in northern Colombia.

Marlon M Ardila, Yoselin Villadiego, Leidi Herrera, Wendy Zabala-Monterroza, Alveiro Pérez-Doria

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Article in Revista peruana de medicina experimental y salud publica. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.6field-weighted citation impact, top 36% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 3 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Molecular diagnosis of trypanosomatids inInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Marlon M ArdilaFacultad de Ciencias Básicas y Biomédicas, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Barranquilla, Colombia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1851-5307
Yoselin VilladiegoGrupo Interdisciplinario en Ciencias Marinas y Ambientales (GICMARA), Facultad de Ciencias Básicas, Universidad del Atlántico, Puerto Colombia, Colombia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7728-4898
Leidi HerreraCentro de Ecología y Evolución, Instituto de Zoología y Ecología Tropical (IZET), Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV), Caracas, Venezuela.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8515-2078
Wendy Zabala-MonterrozaGrupo Investigaciones Biomédicas, Facultad de Educación y Ciencias, Universidad de Sucre, Sincelejo, Colombia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3841-5204
Alveiro Pérez-DoriaGrupo Investigaciones Biomédicas, Facultad de Educación y Ciencias, Universidad de Sucre, Sincelejo, Colombia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1473-5895
University of Sucre · COCentral University of Venezuela · VEUniversity of Atlántico · COUniversity of Concepción · CL

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We studied the prevalence of infection by trypanosomatid parasites in Didelphis marsupialis and its relationship with morphological/age aspects in a rural area of El Carmen de Bolivar, Colombia. Five visits were made to the Vereda El Alférez; each of which lasted three consecutive nights. During these visits, Tomahawk® traps were installed in the peridomestic and wild ecotopes of the Vereda El Alférez. Body measurements, sex and age were determined from the collected animals. Blood was extracted by cardiopuncture, after sedation, in order to obtain total deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and amplify the conserved region of the kinetoplast minicircle DNA (kDNA) of parasitic trypanosomatids. The association between morphological parameters of didelphids and their frequency of infection by parasitic trypanosomatids was determined by binomial regression. Thirty D. marsupialis specimens (60.0% females and 40.0% males/66.7% adults and 33.3% juveniles) were collected. Molecular diagnosis revealed a frequency of trypanosomatid parasite infection of 46.7%. Stage (p=0.024) was a determinant for infection. We discuss the role of D. marsupialis as a potential reservoir of parasitic trypanosomatids in the Vereda El Alférez.

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DidelphisParasitesAnimalsColombiaDisease ReservoirsDNAFemaleMaleDNA

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