Title
Prevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi and other trypanosomatids in frequently-hunted wild mammals from the Peruvian Amazon
Date Issued
01 January 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
University of Prince Edward Island
Unidad de Investigación Médica Naval-6
Unidad de Investigación Médica Naval-6
Publisher(s)
American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Abstract
To better understand the ecology of Trypanosoma cruzi in the northeastern Peruvian Amazon, we evaluated the prevalence of T. cruzi and other trypanosomatids in four orders of wild mammals hunted and consumed by inhabitants of three remote indigenous communities in the Peruvian Amazon. Of 300 wild mammals sampled, 115 (38.3%) were infected with trypanosomatids and 15 (5.0%) with T. cruzi. The prevalence of T. cruzi within each species was as follows: large rodents (Cuniculus paca, 5.5%; Dasyprocta spp., 2.6%), edentates (Dasypus novemcinctus, 4.2%), and carnivores with higher prevalence (Nasua nasua, 18.8%). The high prevalence of T. cruzi and other trypanosomatids in frequently hunted wild mammals suggests a sizeable T. cruzi sylvatic reservoir in remote Amazonian locations.
Start page
1482
End page
1485
Volume
97
Issue
5
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Parasitología
Enfermedades infecciosas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85034099623
PubMed ID
Source
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
ISSN of the container
00029637
Sponsor(s)
Financial support: This work was been supported by LA Zoo, and the training grant 2D43 TW007393 awarded to AGL by the Fogarty International Center of the U.S. National Institutes of Health; and the Earthwatch Institute. The sponsors had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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