Trypanosoma cruzi prevalence and epidemiologic trends in lemurs on St. Catherines Island, Georgia

Journal of Parasitology

Volumn 93, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 93-96

  Hall, Chris A ^a   Polizzi, Crystal ^a   Yabsley, Michael J ^a,b   Norton, Terry M ^a,c  

^a BERRY COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^c St Catherine's Island Foundation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISEASE PREVALENCE; DISEASE VECTOR; EPIDEMIOLOGY; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PRIMATE; TRYPANOSOMIASIS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BREEDING; EPIDEMIC; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIMATE; PROSIMIAN; PROTOZOAL INFECTION; SEROLOGY; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; UNITED STATES; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; BLOOD; CHAGAS DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CARRIER; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; IMMUNOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PREVALENCE; PRIMATE DISEASE; TRIATOMA;

GEORGIA; NORTH AMERICA; SAINT CATHERINES ISLAND; UNITED STATES;

EULEMUR MACACO FLAVIFRONS; LEMUR CATTA; LEMURIDAE; PRIMATES; PROCYON; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI; VARECIA VARIEGATA; VARECIA VARIEGATA VARIEGATA;

PROTOZOON ANTIBODY;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; CHAGAS DISEASE; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; GEORGIA; INSECT VECTORS; LEMUR; LEMURIDAE; PREVALENCE; PRIMATE DISEASES; TRIATOMA; TRYPANOSOMA CRUZI;

EID: 34247244721     PISSN: 00223395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1645/GE-936R.1     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. AZOGUE, E., C. L. FUENTE, AND C. DARRAS. 1985. Congenital Chagas' disease in Bolivia: Epidemiological aspects and pathological findings. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 70: 176-180.
2. BARNABE, C., R. YAEGER, O. J. PUNG, AND M. TIBAYRENC. 2001. Trypanosoma cruzi: A considerable phylogenetic divergence indicates that the agent of Chagas disease is indigenous to the native fauna of the United States. Experimental Parasitology 99: 73-79.
3. BEARD, C. B., G. PYE, F. J. STEURER, R. RODRIGUEZ, R. CAMPMAN, A. T. PETERSON, J. RAMSEY, R. A. WIRTZ, AND L. E. ROBINSON. 2003. Chagas disease in a domestic transmission cycle in southern Texas, USA. Emerging Infectious Diseases 9: 103-105.
4. _, D. G. YOUNG, J. F. BUTLER, AND D. A. EVANS. 1988. First isolation of Trypanosoma cruzi from a wild-caught Triatoma sanguisuga (Leconte) (Hemiptera: Triatominae) in Florida, USA. Journal of Parasitology 74: 343-344.
5. BRISSE, S., J. VERHOEF, AND N. TIBAYRENC. 2001. Characterization of large and small subunit rRNA and mini-exon genes further supports the distinction of six Trypanosoma cruzi lineages. International Journal for Parasitology 31: 1218-1226.
6. CLARK, C. G., AND O. J. PUNG. 1994. Host specificity of ribosomal DNA variation in sylvatic Trypanosoma cruzi from North America. Molecular and Biochemical Parasitology 66: 175-179.
7. DAY, T. 2002. The evolution of virulence in vector-borne and directly transmitted parasites. Theoretical Population Biology 62: 199-213.
8. HERWALDT, B. L., A. L. NEWSOME, M. R. POWELL, F. J. STEURER, M. J. GRIJALVA, C. R. MCGHEE, D. G. NEMEC, AND M. L. EBERHARD. 2000. Use of polymerase chain reaction to diagnose the fifth reported US case of autochthonous transmission of Trypanosoma cruzi, in Tennessee, 1998. The Journal of Infectious Disease 181: 395-399.
9. KURUP, G. U., AND A. KUMAR. 1993. Time budget and activity patterns of the lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus). International Journal of Primatology 14: 27-39.
10. MAGALHAES, J. B., AND S. G. ANDRADE. 1994. Investigation on the possibility of spontaneous cure of mice infected with different strains of Trypanosoma cruzi. Review of the Institute of Tropical Medicine of Sao Paulo 36: 481-484.
11. MILES, M. A. 1972. Trypanosoma cruzi - Milk transmission of infection and immunity from mother to young. Parasitology 65: 1-9.
12. PIETRZAK, S. M., AND O. J. PUNG. 1998. Trypanosomiasis in raccoons from Georgia. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 34: 132-136.
13. PIPPIN, W. F. 1970. The biology and vector capability of Triatoma sanguisuga texana usinger and Triatoma gerstaeckeri compared with Rhodnius prolixus. Journal of Medical Entomology 7: 30-45.
14. PUNG, O. J., C. W. BANKS, D. N. JONES, AND M. W. KRISSINGER. 1995. Trypanosoma cruzi in wild raccoons, opossums, and triatomine bugs in southeast Georgia, USA. Journal of Parasitology 81: 324-326.
15. _, J. SPRATT, G. CLARK, T. M. NORTON, AND J. CARTER. 1998. Trypanosoma cruzi infection of free-ranging lion-tailed macaques (Macaca silenus) and ring-tailed lemurs (Lemur catta) on St. Catherine's Island, Georgia, USA. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 29: 25-30.
16. ROWE, N. 1996. The pictorial guide to living primates, 1st ed. Pogonias Press, New York, New York, 263 p.
17. SOUTO, R. P., O. FERNANDES, A. M. MACEDO, D. A. CAMPBELL, AND B. ZINGALES. 1996. DNA markers define two major phylogenetic lineages of Trypanosoma cruzi. 20: 141-152.
18. YABSLEY, M. J., G. P. NOBLET, AND O. J. PUNG. 2001. Comparison of serological methods and blood culture for the detection of Trypanosoma cruzi infection in raccoons (Procyon lotor). Journal of Parasitology 87: 1155-1159
19. _, AND _. 2002a. Seroprevalence of Trypanosoma cruzi in raccoons from South Carolina and Georgia. Journal of Wildlife Diseases 38: 75-83.
20. _, AND _. 2002b. Biological and molecular characterization of a raccoon isolate of Trypanosoma cruzi from South Carolina. Journal of Parasitology 88: 1273-1276.
21. _, T. M. NORTON, M. R. POWELL, AND W. R. DAVIDSON. 2004. Molecular and serologic evidence of tick-borne ehrlichiae in three species of lemurs from St. Catherine's Island, Georgia, USA. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 35: 503-509.