Haemotropic mycoplasmas (haemoplasmas) have increasingly attracted the attention of
wildlife disease researchers due to a combination of wide host range, high prevalence and …

Introduction Recent evidence shows a high diversity of infectious agents in wildlife that
represent a threat to human, domestic, and wild animal health. In Chile, wild populations of …

We investigated the co-occurrence of the nine of the most relevant canine vector-borne
pathogens (CVBP) using conventional and real-time PCR and evaluated risk factors and …

Mycoplasma spp. are wall-less bacteria able to infect mammals and are classified as
hemotropic (hemoplasma) and nonhemotropic. In aquatic mammals, hemoplasma have …

Hemotropic mycoplasmas (hemoplasmas) are small Gram-negative bacteria that parasitize
red blood cells and can cause mild to severe anemia in a wide range of vertebrates …

Chile is a large country with a marked range of climate conditions that make it an ideal
scenario for the study of vector-borne parasites (VBPs); however, knowledge about their …

Although mammals of the superorder Xenarthra are considered hosts of a wide range of
zoonotic agents, works aiming at investigating the role of these animals as hosts for bacteria …

Blood samples of 626 rural dogs, 140 Andean foxes (Lycalopex culpaeus), and 83 South
American grey foxes (L. griseus) from six bioregions of Chile spanning 3000 km were …

Even though previous works showed molecular evidence of hemotropic Mycoplasma
spp.(hemoplasmas) in ring-tailed coatis (Nasua nasua) from Brazil, Bartonella sp. has not …

Hemotropic mycoplasmas (hemoplasmas) are emerging zoonotic pathogens.
Micromammals have received little attention as hosts for hemoplasmas despite their …