RESUMEN

This paper describes the first detection of adenovirus in a Brazilian Desmodus rotundus bat, the common vampire bat. As part of a continuous rabies surveillance program, three bat specimens were captured in Southern Brazil. Total DNA was extracted from pooled organs and submitted to a nested PCR designed to amplify a 280 bp long portion of the DNA polymerase gene of adenoviruses. One positive sample was subjected to nucleotide sequencing, confirming that this DNA fragment belongs to a member of the genus Mastadenovirus. This sequence is approximately 25 % divergent at the nucleotide level from equine adenovirus 1 and two other recently characterized bat adenoviruses.

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Quirópteros/virología , Mastadenovirus/genética , Mastadenovirus/aislamiento & purificación , Estructuras Animales/virología , Animales , Brasil , Análisis por Conglomerados , ADN Viral/química , ADN Viral/genética , Datos de Secuencia Molecular , Filogenia , Análisis de Secuencia de ADN , Homología de Secuencia