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SUBMITTER: Zamora-Velez A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7238717 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zamora-Vélez Alejandro A Cuadrado-Ríos Sebastián S Hernández-Pinsón Andrés A Mantilla-Meluk Hugo H Gómez-Marín Jorge Enrique JE
Acta parasitologica 20200520 4
<h4>Introduction</h4>Toxoplasma gondii infections have been reported for many warm-blooded animals around the world including chiropterans. However, in Colombia, the country that holds the highest taxonomic richness of this order of mammals in the Neotropics, up to date there are no reports of T. gondii in bats (Carollia brevicauda).<h4>Purpose</h4>The objective of the present study was to detect T. gondii DNA from internal bat organs from Quindío, Colombia.<h4>Results</h4>We report the first de ...[more]