A Novel Host of an Emerging Disease: SARS-CoV-2 Infection in a Giant Anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) Kept Under Clinical Care in Brazil.
Asheley Henrique Barbosa PereiraGabriela Oliveira PereiraJaqueline Camargo BorgesVictoria Luiza de Barros SilvaBárbara Hawanna Marques PereiraThays Oliveira MorgadoJoao Paulo da Silva CavasaniRenata Dezengrini SlhessarenkoRichard Pacheco CamposAlexander Welker BiondoRenan de Carvalho MendesPedro Eduardo Brandini NéspoliMarcos Almeida de SouzaEdson Moleta ColodelDaniel Guimarães UbialiValéria DutraLuciano NakazatoPublished in: EcoHealth (2023)
A young male free-ranging giant anteater (Myrmecophaga tridactyla) was found with paralysis of pelvic limbs on a highway and kept under human care. Radiographs confirmed multiple incomplete fractures in the thoracolumbar vertebrae. Due to the poor prognosis, euthanasia was chosen. The infection was established by viral SARS-CoV-2 RNA detection in the rectal swab, spleen and kidney samples. Immunohistochemistry detected the viral nucleocapsid protein in sections of the lungs, liver, spleen, lymph nodes, and large intestine sections, and spike protein antigen in the lung tissue. Pilosa order species should be included as potential hosts of natural infection of SARS-CoV-2.
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