A Novel Host of an Emerging Disease: SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) Kept Under Clinical Care in Brazil.

IF 2.2 3区环境科学与生态学 Q3 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES Ecohealth Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1007/s10393-022-01623-6

Asheley Henrique Barbosa Pereira, Gabriela Oliveira Pereira, Jaqueline Camargo Borges, Victoria Luiza de Barros Silva, Bárbara Hawanna Marques Pereira, Thays Oliveira Morgado, Joao Paulo da Silva Cavasani, Renata Dezengrini Slhessarenko, Richard Pacheco Campos, Alexander Welker Biondo, Renan de Carvalho Mendes, Pedro Eduardo Brandini Néspoli, Marcos Almeida de Souza, Edson Moleta Colodel, Daniel Guimarães Ubiali, Valéria Dutra, Luciano Nakazato

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A young male free-ranging giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) was found with paralysis of pelvic limbs on a highway and kept under human care. Radiographs confirmed multiple incomplete fractures in the thoracolumbar vertebrae. Due to the poor prognosis, euthanasia was chosen. The infection was established by viral SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in the rectal swab, spleen and kidney samples. Immunohistochemistry detected the viral nucleocapsid protein in sections of the lungs, liver, spleen, lymph nodes, and large intestine sections, and spike protein antigen in the lung tissue. Pilosa order species should be included as potential hosts of natural infection of SARS-CoV-2.

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一只年轻的雄性自由放养的巨型食蚁兽(Myrmecophaga tridactyla)在高速公路上被发现骨盆四肢瘫痪，并由人类照顾。x线片证实胸腰椎多处不完全性骨折。由于预后不佳，选择了安乐死。通过直肠拭子、脾脏和肾脏样本的SARS-CoV-2病毒RNA检测确定感染。免疫组化检测肺、肝、脾、淋巴结和大肠切片的病毒核衣壳蛋白，肺组织的刺突蛋白抗原。应将棘毛蝇目物种作为SARS-CoV-2自然感染的潜在宿主。

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Ecohealth 环境科学-环境科学

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>24 weeks

期刊介绍： EcoHealth aims to advance research, practice, and knowledge integration at the interface of ecology and health by publishing high quality research and review articles that address and profile new ideas, developments, and programs. The journal’s scope encompasses research that integrates concepts and theory from many fields of scholarship (including ecological, social and health sciences, and the humanities) and draws upon multiple types of knowledge, including those of relevance to practice and policy. Papers address integrated ecology and health challenges arising in public health, human and veterinary medicine, conservation and ecosystem management, rural and urban development and planning, and other fields that address the social-ecological context of health. The journal is a central platform for fulfilling the mission of the EcoHealth Alliance to strive for sustainable health of people, domestic animals, wildlife, and ecosystems by promoting discovery, understanding, and transdisciplinarity. The journal invites substantial contributions in the following areas: One Health and Conservation Medicine o Integrated research on health of humans, wildlife, livestock and ecosystems o Research and policy in ecology, public health, and agricultural sustainability o Emerging infectious diseases affecting people, wildlife, domestic animals, and plants o Research and practice linking human and animal health and/or social-ecological systems o Anthropogenic environmental change and drivers of disease emergence in humans, wildlife, livestock and ecosystems o Health of humans and animals in relation to terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecosystems Ecosystem Approaches to Health o Systems thinking and social-ecological systems in relation to health o Transdiiplinary approaches to health, ecosystems and society.