Picobirnavirus in Captive Animals from Uruguay: Identification of New Hosts

Abstract

The Picobirnaviruses (PBVs) have been detected in several species of animals from different countries worldwide, including in South America. The host range of these viruses has increased in recent years; thus, in order to contribute to the knowledge in this topic we analyzed samples from captivity animals from Uruguay. We found the presence of PBVs in four species of animals, <i>Panthera leo</i>, <i>Panthera onca</i>, <i>Puma concolor </i>and <i>Oncifelis geoffroyi</i>, representing new PBV-susceptible hosts. All strains belonged to genogroup I.

Animal Picobirnavirus

“…Later, PBVs have been identified in faecal specimens of humans practically worldwide [3, 6, 7, 14, 26-29, 51, 55, 56, 61, 68, 76]. PBVs were also detected in faeces of a wide variety of farm mammals, birds, wild animals and birds kept in captivity, etc., viz., pigs [2,4,16,31,34,50,56,67], calves [10,15,35,53,54,61,77,79], rabbits and guinea pigs [25,43,52,65], bats [86], red fox [8], avian such as chickens & poults [1,49,59,69,73], and other wild animals kept in captivity like Giant Anteaters [45]; giant cats like Lion, Puma, Jaguar and Geoffroy's cat [37], sea lion [84], human primates such as Orangutan, wild birds such as American Ostrich, gloomy pheasant, Chinese goose [57], goat kids and lambs [60], donkeys [57,58], foals [9,30], laboratory non-human primates such as rhesus, pigtailed macaques and cynomolgus monkeys [83] and dogs [17,23,81], rats [23,64], snakes [23] and turkeys …”

Epidemiology, Phylogeny, and Evolution of Emerging EntericPicobirnavirusesof Animal Origin and Their Relationship to Human Strains

“…Thereafter, PBVs have been detected in the faecal samples of many animal species including rats [2, 22], chickens [23–27], hamsters [2], guinea pigs [28], pigs [29–37], bovine calves [10, 11, 21, 38, 39], water buffalo calf [12], foals [40, 41], snake [22], giant anteaters [42], Panthera leo , Panthera onca , Puma concolor , and Oncifelis geoffroyi [43]. Global and species-wise distribution of PBVs is presented in Figures 3 and 4, respectively.…”

Maintenance of picobirnavirus (PBV) infection in an adult orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) and genetic diversity of excreted viral strains during a three-year period

“…After being reported in the year 1988 (Pereira et al, 1988b), PBVs have been detected in stools samples of several species of animals and from different countries, including rabbits (Gallimore et al, 1993;Ludert et al, 1995), dogs (Costa et al, 2004), cattle (Buzinaro et al, 2003;Malik et al, 2014;Vanpodenbosch and Wellemans, 1990), foals (Ganesh et al, 2011b), pigs (Bányai et al, 2008;Carruyo et al, 2008;Ganesh et al, 2012;Martínez et al, 2010), guinea pigs (Pereira et al, 1989), rats (Pereira et al, 1988a), monkeys (Wang et al, 2007), giant anteaters (Haga et al, 1999), orangutans, armadillos (Masachessi et al, 2007), Pantheraleo, Pantheraonca, Puma concolor, Oncifelis geoffroyi (Gillman et al, 2013), snakes (Fregolente et al, 2009), chickens (Tamehiro et al, 2003), geese, pheasants, pelicans (Masachessi et al, 2007) and humans (Gallimore et al, 1995;Ganesh et al, 2010Ganesh et al, , 2011aGiordano et al, 1998;Grohmann et al, 1993;Pereira et al, 1988b). PBVs have been detected in feces from animals with or without diarrhea (Bhattacharya et al, 2006(Bhattacharya et al, , 2007Gatti et al, 1989).…”