title: First detection of adenovirus in the vampire bat (Desmodus rotundus) in Brazil.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Veterinary Research Institute "Desiderio Finamor" (IPVDF), Estrada do Conde 6000, Eldorado do Sul, RS, CEP 92990-000, Brazil, esmaile.sales@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Francisco Esmaile de Sales
authors.initials: FE
authors.lastname: Lima
authors.forename: Samuel Paulo
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Cibulski
authors.forename: Felipe
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Elesbao
authors.forename: Pedro
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Carnieli Junior
authors.forename: Helena Beatriz de Carvalho Ruthner
authors.initials: HB
authors.lastname: Batista
authors.forename: Paulo Michel
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Roehe
authors.forename: Ana Cláudia
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Franco
mesh_terms: D000825:Animal Structures / Q000821:virology; D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D002685:Chiroptera / Q000821:virology*; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004279:DNA, Viral / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics; D017921:Mastadenovirus / Q000235:genetics* / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010802:Phylogeny; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA; D017385:Sequence Homology
chemical_list: D004279:DNA, Viral