title: Carriage of Clostridium difficile in free-living South American coati (Nasua nasua) in Brazil.
abstract: The objective of this study was to isolate and characterize Clostridium difficile strains in stool samples from a wild urban mammal, a South American coati (Nasua nasua) in Brazil. Forty-six free-living N. nasua were trapped, and stool samples were collected. C. difficile was isolated from three (6.5%) sampled animals, two strains were toxigenic (A+B+CDT-, PCR ribotype 014/020 and 106) and one was non toxigenic (A-B-CDT-, PCR ribotype 053). The present work confirms that ring-tailed coati (N. nasua) could harbor C. difficile strains, including those PCR ribotypes commonly reported in C. difficile infection in humans.
authors.affiliation: Veterinary School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Antônio Carlos Avenue, 6627, Belo Horizonte 31.270-901, MG, Brazil. Electronic address: rodrigo.otaviosilva@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Rodrigo Otávio Silveira
authors.initials: RO
authors.lastname: Silva
authors.affiliation: Veterinary School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Antônio Carlos Avenue, 6627, Belo Horizonte 31.270-901, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Lara
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Ribeiro de Almeida
authors.affiliation: Veterinary School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Antônio Carlos Avenue, 6627, Belo Horizonte 31.270-901, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carlos Augusto
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Oliveira Junior
authors.affiliation: Veterinary School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Antônio Carlos Avenue, 6627, Belo Horizonte 31.270-901, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Danielle Ferreira
authors.initials: DF
authors.lastname: de Magalhães Soares
authors.affiliation: Veterinary School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Antônio Carlos Avenue, 6627, Belo Horizonte 31.270-901, MG, Brazil.
authors.forename: Pedro Lúcio Lithg
authors.initials: PL
authors.lastname: Pereira
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Medicine, University of Maribor, Slovenia; National Laboratory for Health, Environment and Food, Maribor, Slovenia; Center of Excellence for Integrated Approaches in Chemistry and Biology of Proteins, Ljubljana, Slovenia.
authors.forename: Maja
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rupnik
authors.affiliation: Veterinary School, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), Antônio Carlos Avenue, 6627, Belo Horizonte 31.270-901, MG, Brazil. Electronic address: flobato@vet.ufmg.br.
authors.forename: Francisco Carlos Faria
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Lobato
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001427:Bacterial Toxins / Q000235:genetics; D001938:Brazil; D002353:Carrier State / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D016360:Clostridioides difficile / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003015:Clostridium Infections / Q000382:microbiology / Q000662:veterinary*; D005243:Feces / Q000382:microbiology; D005260:Female; D005838:Genotype; D008297:Male; D045988:Procyonidae / Q000382:microbiology*; D021521:Ribotyping
chemical_list: D001427:Bacterial Toxins
keywords: Carnivora; Procyonidae; Urban mammals; Zoonotic