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Occurrence of Picobirnavirus in Domestic and Wild Animals from Three Cities of Brazilian Amazon

Elaine Hellen Nunes Chagas
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Julia Rezende Da Silva
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Bruno de Cássio Veloso de Barros
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José Wandilson Barboza Duarte Júnior
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Fabiolla da Silva dos Santos
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Edivaldo Costa Sousa Júnior
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Delana Andreza Melo Bezerra
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Helder Henrique Costa Pinheiro
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Ceyla Maria Oeiras de Castro
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Yashpal Singh Malik
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Joana D’Arc Pereira Mascarenhas
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Version 1 : Received: 9 November 2023 / Approved: 9 November 2023 / Online: 9 November 2023 (11:24:00 CET)

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Chagas, E.H.N.; da Silva, J.R.; de Barros, B.C.V.; Duarte Júnior, J.W.B.; dos Santos, F.S.; Sousa Júnior, E.C.; Bezerra, D.A.M.; dos Santos, M.I.; Pinheiro, H.H.C.; Malik, Y.S.; Mascarenhas, J.D.P. Occurrence of Picobirnavirus in Domestic and Wild Animals from Three Cities of Brazilian Amazon. Zoonotic Dis. 2024, 4, 74-85. Chagas, E.H.N.; da Silva, J.R.; de Barros, B.C.V.; Duarte Júnior, J.W.B.; dos Santos, F.S.; Sousa Júnior, E.C.; Bezerra, D.A.M.; dos Santos, M.I.; Pinheiro, H.H.C.; Malik, Y.S.; Mascarenhas, J.D.P. Occurrence of Picobirnavirus in Domestic and Wild Animals from Three Cities of Brazilian Amazon. Zoonotic Dis. 2024, 4, 74-85.

Abstract

This study aimed to detect picobirnavirus (PBV) in the fecal samples of wild and domestic animals from 2014 to 2016 in the Amazon biome. Fecal samples from different animals, including birds (n=41) and mammals (n=217) were used. The PAGE test showed negativity for PBV. However, 32 samples (12.4%, 32/258) showed positive results in RT-PCR analyses. Among the positive sam-ples, pigs and cats, both with 28.12% (9/32), registered the highest frequencies. In phylogenetic analysis, eight sequences from positive samples grouped in the Genogroup 1 of PBV (PBV GI). PBV occurrence was significantly related to cats and pigs, but not other mammals or birds, in-dependently of their geographical origin. Nucleotide analysis demonstrated similarity among the feline group, but the absence of a defined structure between the clades. PBVs are highly wide-spread viruses that can affect the most diverse types of hosts in the Amazon biome, including humans.

Keywords

enteric virus; picobirnavirus; brazilian animals; page, rt-pcr; rdrp gene; phylogenetic analysis; genogroup I

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Animal Science, Veterinary Science and Zoology

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