RESUMO

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.

Assuntos

Quirópteros/virologia , Mastadenovirus/genética , Mastadenovirus/isolamento & purificação , Estruturas Animais/virologia , Animais , Brasil , Análise por Conglomerados , DNA Viral/química , DNA Viral/genética , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Filogenia , Análise de Sequência de DNA , Homologia de Sequência