Molecular Demonstration of Hemotropic Mycoplasmas in Wild Japanese Monkeys(Macaca fuscata)

[摘要] References(22)Cited-By(1)The prevalence of hemotropic mycoplasmas in wild monkeys is largely unknown.Here, we report the presence of hemoplasmas in blood specimens collected from wildJapanese monkeys (Macaca fuscata) tentatively captured for ecologicalsurvey in Mie prefecture, Japan. We examined 9 monkeys using hemoplasma-specific real-timePCR and found all of them positive for a hemoplasma infection. The 16S rRNA gene and 16Sto 23S rRNA intergenic spacer region of the hemoplasma detected in wild monkeys wereamplified using end-point PCR. The nucleotide sequences of the PCR products were furtherdetermined and compared to those of other hemoplasmas. Our examinations revealed a wideprevalence of a hemoplasma strain in Japanese monkeys, which was similar to‘Candidatus Mycoplasma haemomacaque�? reported in cynomolgus monkeys(Macaca fascicularis). Pathogenic traits of this hemoplasma strainremain unexplored.

[学科分类] 兽医学

[关键词] hemoplasma;monkey;mycoplasma