Circulation of canine parvovirus among dogs living in human-wildlife interface in the Atlantic forest biome, Brazil

Vieira, Flávia V.; Hoffmann, Daniel J.; Fabri, Carolina U.F.; Bresciani, Katia D.S.; Gameiro, Roberto; Flores, Eduardo F.; Cardoso, Tereza C.

The furthermost important diseases transmitted from dogs to wild carnivores, e.g. rabies, canine distemper and parvovirosis, are named " The Big Three" due to the strong impact over the health of wild species (Curi et al., 2016) . Thus, infectious diseases driven-mortality is one of the major causes of population decline and, in some situations, even extinction of wild mammal carnivores worldwide (Curi et al., 2016) . Although evidence on the role of domestic dogs as reservoirs of viral diseases for wild carnivores is becoming a global pattern, few such reports are described in South America (Acosta-Jamett et al., 2015; Curi et al., 2016) . In this respect, a pioneer study has recently described the prevalence and risk factors for viral exposure in rural dogs around protected areas of Atlantic forest (Curi et al., 2016) . For this purpose, virus isolation, PCR detection and sequencing analysis of isolated CPV were performed in 100 faecal samples collected from dogs living in a rural area belonging to Atlantic forest biome 2. Material and methods