DETECTION OF BARTONELLA SP. IN DEER LOUSE FLIES (LIPOPTENA MAZAMAE) ON GRAY BROCKET DEER (MAZAMA GOUAZOUBIRA) IN THE NEOTROPICS

Louse flies or deer keds, Lipoptena spp., are widespread in Neotropical cervids, but the vector-borne pathogens of louse flies had only been previously reported in the Northern hemisphere. This is the first report of Bartonella spp. in deer louse flies (Lipoptena mazamae) in the neotropics collected...

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Published inJournal of zoo and wildlife medicine Vol. 48; no. 2; p. 532
Main Authors Souza, Ugo, Dall'Agnol, Bruno, Michel, Thais, Webster, Anelise, Klafke, Guilherme, Martins, João Ricardo, Kasper, Carlos Benhur, Trigo, Tatiane Campos, Ott, Ricardo, Maria de Assis Jardim, Márcia, Reck, José
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States 01.06.2017
Subjects
Animals
Bartonella - genetics
Bartonella - isolation & purification
Deer - parasitology
Diptera - microbiology
DNA, Bacterial - genetics
Phylogeny
Bartonellosis
parasite
vector-borne
cervid
Diptera
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Summary:Louse flies or deer keds, Lipoptena spp., are widespread in Neotropical cervids, but the vector-borne pathogens of louse flies had only been previously reported in the Northern hemisphere. This is the first report of Bartonella spp. in deer louse flies (Lipoptena mazamae) in the neotropics collected from gray brocket deer ( Mazama gouazoubira ) in Southern Brazil. DNA from Bartonella sp. was detected in all 429 L. mazamae collected from 11 road-killed gray brocket deer. The same sequences of DNA of Bartonella spp. were identified in samples. Gray brocket deer are abundant in Brazil, so Bartonella-infected Lipoptena spp. may be widely distributed in the neotropics.
ISSN:1042-7260
DOI:10.1638/2016-0058R3.1