{"id":250545,"date":"2017-12-19T17:54:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=250545\/"},"modified":"2017-12-19T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-19T19:54:20","slug":"leptospira-in-capybaras-of-western-amazonia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/leptospira-in-capybaras-of-western-amazonia\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Leptospira<\/em> in capybaras of western Amazonia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_250546\" style=\"max-width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/012-017_notas_257-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-250546\" src=\"http:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/012-017_notas_257-6-300x259.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"259\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">CDC\/Rob Weyant<\/span><\/a> More than 40% of the animals examined had antibodies against bacteria that cause leptospirosis<span class=\"media-credits\">CDC\/Rob Weyant<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>Capybaras (<em>Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris<\/em><strong><em>) <\/em><\/strong>of western Amazonia are chronically infected with bacteria of the genus <em>Leptospira<\/em>, particularly <em>L. interrogans<\/em>, and may act as asymptomatic reservoirs of the pathogen in rural or semi-urban areas. These were the findings of a study conducted by veterinarians from the Federal University of Acre (UFAC) and Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), who conducted blood and urine tests on 41 animals captured in areas near the Acre State capital of Rio Branco and found high rates of the bacterial infection (<em>Acta Tropica<\/em>, May 2017). In 43.9% of the rodents, the immune response was positive for <em>Leptospira<\/em>, but few antibodies were present\u2014an indication that the animals were probably chronically infected with the bacteria. In the urine tests, nearly one-third of the capybaras\u2014the world\u2019s largest rodents\u2014showed signs of the pathogen. In humans, leptospirosis causes yellow fever, malaise and muscle pain (myalgia). In severe cases, it can lead to death. It is transmitted to humans through contact with the contaminated urine of rodents, particularly during floods. In cities, the disease is mainly transmitted by urban rats.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leptospira in capybaras of western Amazonia","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[209,229],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-250545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-biology","tag-epidemiology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250545"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=250545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}