Diversidade genética do Anaplasma marginale em condições de transmissão natural

• Ano de defesa: 2015
• Autor(a) principal: Silva, Jenevaldo Barbosa da [UNESP]
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp)
• Palavras-chave em Português: Bovino; Diversidade genética; Doenças transmitidas por carrapato; Bacterias patogenicas; Proteinas da membrana; Genetic diversity
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/11449/136737; http://www.athena.biblioteca.unesp.br/exlibris/bd/cathedra/22-03-2016/000860445.pdf

Anaplasma marginale is the most prevalent tick-borne pathogen in cattle in tropical and subtropical regions of the world. The A. marginale major surface protein 1 alpha (MSP1a) contains a variable number of tandem repeats in the amino terminal region and has been used for the characterization of pathogen genetic diversity. We conducted a longitudinal study to ascertain the genetic diversity of A. marginale in in a dairy cattle herd in Seropédica state of Rio de Janeiro and Taiaçu state of São Paulo, Brazil. Twenty calves were evaluated every three months during the first year of life by blood smear, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA), Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Test (IFAT) and Polymerase Chain Reaction (nPCR/qPCR). Additionally, samples positive for the msp1a gene using nPCR were sequenced. The prevalence of A. marginale ranged from 10 to 90% according to blood smears, 20-80% using ELISA/IFAT and 15-100% using qPCR. The number of msp1a copies per mL of blood ranged from 1,04x101 to 6.76x1012 (Seropédica RJ) and 1.20 x 101 to 5.17 x 106 (Taiaçu SP). The results showed that the genetic diversity of A. marginale in a group of calves up to 1 year of age from Taiaçu (SP) was low, with only three different strains identified, showing the microsatellite genotype E. However, the results showed that the genetic diversity of A. marginale in a group of calves up to 1 year of age from Seropédica (RJ) was high, with nineteen different strains identified, showing the microsatellite genotype E and G. The strains 4-63-27 (27.4%) and α-β3-Γ (77.8%) were the most commonly observed in calves of Seropédica RJ and Taiaçu SP, respectively. The new MSP1a tandem repeat 190 was described in calves from Taiaçu and twenty-two MSP1a tandem repeats resulted in new sequences with amino acid changes, which were labeled as 165-186 in calves from Seropédica. In Seropedica, three animals were born infected, with strains 4-63-27, 78-242-25-31 and ...