Epidemiologia e caracterização molecular do vírus da Influenza em quatro espécies de pinguins na Região Antártica. / Epidemiology and molecular characterization of the influenza virus in four penguin species of the antartic region.

AUTOR(ES)

Luiz Francisco Sanfilippo

FONTE

IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

23/02/2011

RESUMO

Epidemics and pandemics of influenza usually refer to infections in human beings. The influenza virus is not, however, restricted to humans and can cause infirmity and death in other species including horses, swine, marine mammals, birds, and others. Ecological studies of viral infections have led to the hypothesis that the influenza viruses that attack mammals have their origin in the accumulation of these viruses in birds (avian flu). In some countries with influenza cases caused by the avian H5N1 virus, there was monitoring of wild birds but little had been done in Antarctica. The present work was therefore carried out during the Antarctic summer seasons of 2006, 2007, and 2008 in two Antarctic locations: The Commander Ferraz Antarctic Station, on the Keller Peninsula of King George Island, and at the Base of Advanced Studies located on Elephant Island (61°08S, 55°07W). Two hundred eighty-three (283) samples from four different penguin species Pygoscelis adeliae, Pygoscelis papua, Pygoscelis antarctica; and Aptenodytes patagonicus were collected for this study. Diagnoses of the samples were performed not only by application of direct detection and amplification according to the RT-PCR method in agar-gel, but also by Real-Time PCR (Applied Biosystems), and by RT-PCR gene scan at the Laboratory of Clinical and Molecular Virology of the Department of Microbiology of the University of Sao Paulo. Eight of the penguin samples tested positive for the Influenza-A virus. The positive samples, as determined by RT-PCR, were sent to the Influenza Laboratory of the Department of Infectious Diseases of the St. Jude Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, USA, to be isolated in egg embryos where no further growth of the Influenza-A virus took place. Four of these positive samples could be sequenced and compared with those of Influenza-A on deposit at the Gene Bank and ranged from 96.85 to 100% when compared with the control samples (100% positive), thus confirming the presence of the virus in the tested birds.

ASSUNTO(S)

aviaries (virology) aviários (virologia) epidemiological surveillance influenza influenza virology molecular virology penguins (antarctica) pinguins (antártica) veterinary virology vigilância epidemiológica virologia molecular virologia veterinária

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