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ArticleRevista brasileira de parasitologia veterinaria = Brazilian journal of veterinary parasitology : Orgao Oficial do Colegio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinaria2025

Detection of Trypanosoma cruzi in white-eared opossums (Didelphis albiventris) from Canoinhas, Santa Catarina State, Brazil1.

Giane Helenita Pontarolo, Daniela Pedrassani, Luís Felipe Kühl, Monique Paiva Campos, Thais Cristina Tirado, Fabiano Borges Figueiredo, Thállitha Samih Wischral Jayme Vieira, Ana Cláudia Calchi, Marcos Rogério André, Rafael Felipe da Costa Vieira and 1 more

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Article in Revista brasileira de parasitologia veterinaria = Brazilian journal of veterinary parasitology : Orgao Oficial do Colegio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinaria, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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11 authors.

Giane Helenita PontaroloDepartamento de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade Federal do Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, PR, Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8449-1083
Daniela PedrassaniDepartamento de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade do Contestado - UnC, Canoinhas, SC, Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6283-4981
Luís Felipe KühlDepartamento de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade do Contestado - UnC, Canoinhas, SC, Brasil.
Monique Paiva CamposLaboratório de Referência em Leishmanioses, Instituto Carlos Chagas - ICC, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Curitiba, PR, Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0082-0362
Thais Cristina TiradoLaboratório de Referência em Leishmanioses, Instituto Carlos Chagas - ICC, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Curitiba, PR, Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2368-7509
Fabiano Borges FigueiredoLaboratório de Referência em Leishmanioses, Instituto Carlos Chagas - ICC, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Curitiba, PR, Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6861-0997
Thállitha Samih Wischral Jayme VieiraDepartment of Chemistry, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8631-2712
Ana Cláudia CalchiVector-Borne Bioagents Laboratory - VBBL, Departamento de Patologia, Reprodução e Saúde Única, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias - FCAV, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Jaboticabal, SP, Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4096-5937
Marcos Rogério AndréVector-Borne Bioagents Laboratory - VBBL, Departamento de Patologia, Reprodução e Saúde Única, Faculdade de Ciências Agrárias e Veterinárias - FCAV, Universidade Estadual Paulista - UNESP, Jaboticabal, SP, Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1713-5222
Rafael Felipe da Costa VieiraDepartment of Epidemiology and Community Health, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6613-0287
Ivan Roque de Barros FilhoDepartamento de Medicina Veterinária, Universidade Federal do Paraná - UFPR, Curitiba, PR, Brasil.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0056-9358

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Opossums are synanthropic animals that participate in the zoonotic transmission cycles. Chagas disease, a neglected tropical disease caused by Trypanosoma cruzi, affects many domestic and wild animals and humans worldwide. This study aimed to determine the occurrence of T. cruzi in free-ranging opossums in Canoinhas, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Fifty opossums (Didelphis albiventris) (33 captured and 17 road-killed) were evaluated using Nested-PCR assay. All tissue samples were negative (0/17). Eight of the 33 (24.24%; 95% CI:11.94-40,89%) blood samples were positive for T. cruzi. No significant associations were found between the sex (male/ female, p = 0.423), the trap area (rural/urban, p = 0.163), and positivity for T. cruzi in opossum blood samples. All samples showed 100% identity with T. cruzi (KF788250) isolated from Panstrongylus megistus in São Paulo, Brazil. The phylogenetic analysis model allocated all sequences obtained from D. albiventris to the large TcI clade of T. cruzi. This study provides the first record of T. cruzi in white-eared opossums in Canoinhas, Santa Catarina, southern Brazil.

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Chagas DiseaseDidelphisOpossumsTrypanosoma cruziAnimalsBrazilFemaleMalePolymerase Chain Reaction

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PMID39907367
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