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PubMed: 40308997 DOI: 10.1016/j.onehlt.2025.101024
One Health approach to hemotropic mycoplasmas (hemoplasmas): Molecular detection in communities and their dogs in Brazil.
One Health 20:101024
Authors: Louise Bach Kmetiuk, Paul Shaw, Ashley Wallington, Giovanni Kalempa Panazzolo, Orlei José Domingues, Jobin Jose Kattoor, Mathew Johnson, Lendro Meneguelli Biondo, Rebecca Wilkes, Fabiano Borges Figueiredo, Giovani Marino Fávero, Joanne B Messick, Andrea Pires Dos Santos, Alexander Welker Biondo
Affiliations
- Department of Comparative Pathobiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States of America.
- Carlos Chagas Institute, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
- IDEXX Reference Laboratory, West Sacramento, CA, USA.
- Graduate College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, State University of Ponta Grossa, Ponta Grossa, PR, Brazil.
- Interdisciplinary Graduate Studies, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada.
- Department of Veterinary Medicine, Federal University of Paraná, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Abstract
Hemoplasmas (hemotropic mycoplasmas) are obligatory red blood cell bacteria that may infect and cause anemia in several mammalian species. IAccordingly, the present study assessed four quilombola communities during six on-field expeditions between December 2021 and March 2022 in the central-eastern Paraná State, southern Brazil. Overall, 12/208 (5.8 %) quilombola individuals were positive for hemoplasma infection by qPCR. Results of 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequencing confirmed Mycoplasma heamocanis infection in two human samples. In addition, hemoplasma infection was detected by qPCR in 19/100 (19.0 %) dogs including 16/19 (84.2 %) dogs for Candidatus Mycoplasma haematoparvum, 7/19 (3.7 %) for , and 4/19 (21.0 %) for both. To the author's knowledge, this is the first One Health approach study of hemoplasma detection in quilombola individuals along with their dogs as vulnerable populations worldwide, with M. heamocanis detection in both human and companion animals.
MeSH
Infections