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Volume 29, Number 12—December 2023
Research

Molecular Detection and Characterization of Mycoplasma spp. in Marine Mammals, Brazil

Aricia Duarte-BenvenutoComments to Author , Carlos Sacristán, Ana Carolina Ewbank, Roberta Zamana-Ramblas, Henrique Christino Lial, Samira Costa Silva, Maria Alejandra Arias Lugo, Lara B. Keid, Caroline F. Pessi, José Rubens Sabbadini, Vanessa L. Ribeiro, Rodrigo del Rio do Valle, Carolina Pacheco Bertozzi, Adriana Castaldo Colosio, Hernani da Cunha Gomes Ramos, Angélica María Sánchez-Sarmiento, Raquel Beneton Ferioli, Larissa Pavanelli, Joana Midori Penalva Ikeda, Vitor L. Carvalho, Felipe Alexandre Catardo Gonçalves, Pablo Ibáñez-Porras, Irene Sacristán, and José Luiz Catão-Dias
Author affiliations: University of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (A. Duarte-Benvenuto, A.C. Ewbank, R. Zamana-Ramblas, H.C. Lial, S.C. Silva, M.A.A. Lugo, L.B. Keid, J.L. Catão-Dias); Centro de Investigación en Sanidad Animal, Madrid, Spain (C. Sacristán, P. Ibáñez-Porras, I. Sacristán); Instituto de Pesquisas Cananéia, Cananéia, Brazil (C.F. Pessi, J.R. Sabbadini); Instituto Biopesca, Praia Grande, Brazil (V.L. Ribeiro, C.P. Bertozzi); Aiuká Consultoria Ambiental, Praia Grande (R. del Rio do Valle); Universidade Estadual Paulista, Campus do Litoral Paulista, São Vicente, Brazil (C.P. Bertozzi); Instituto Baleia Jubarte, Caravelas, Brazil (A. Castaldo Colosio, H. da Cunha Gomes Ramos); Instituto Argonauta para a Conservação Costeira e Marinha, Ubatuba, Brazil (A.M. Sánchez-Sarmiento, R. Beneton Ferioli); Instituto Mamíferos Aquáticos, Salvador, Brazil (L. Pavanelli, J.M. Penalva Ikeda); Associação de Pesquisa e Preservação de Ecossistemas Aquáticos, Caucaia, Brazil (V.L. Carvalho, F.A. Catardo Gonçalves)

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Table 2

Biologic and molecular data from mammals in a study of molecular detection and characterization of Mycoplasma spp. in marine mammals, Brazil*

Case no. Species Age class/sex Year stranded 16S rRNA sequence length, bp Accession no.† Mycoplasma sequence comparison
% nt Identity Closest available sequence† Species of detection
ID1
 Kogia breviceps
 Adult/M
 2017
 1,100
 OR193701
 98.9
 ON721294
 Inia geoffrensis
ID13
 Kogia sima
 Adult/F
 2019
 1,100
 OR193699
 98.9
 ON721294
 I. geoffrensis
ID14
 Stenella coeruleoalba
 Adult/F
 2019
 Inadequate sequence
 NA
 NA
 NA
 NA
ID15
 Kogia breviceps
 Adult/M
 2020
 1100
 OR193701
 98.9
 ON721294
 I. geoffrensis
ID16
 Kogia sima
 Adult/M
 2020
 1,100
 OR193703
 98.7
 ON721294
 I. geoffrensis
ID19
 Stenella frontalis
 Adult/F
 2020
 330
 OR184994
 92.3
 OL985926
 Tapirus terrestris
ID26
 Kogia breviceps
 Adult/F
 2020
 1,100
 OR193701
 98.7
 ON721294
 I. geoffrensis
ID29
 Stenella frontalis
 Adult/F
 2021
 Inadequate sequence
 NA
 NA
 NA
 NA
ID34
 Feresa attenuata
 Adult/M
 2015
 1,100
 OR193702
 98.0
 ON721301
 Inia boliviensis
ID62
 Delphinus delphis
 Juvenile/M
 2021
 1,100
 OR193698
 98.4
 ON721294
 I. geoffrensis
ID63
 Sotalia guianensis
 Juvenile/F
 2021
 330
 OR193744
 98.6
 ON721294
 I. geoffrensis
ID79
 Pontoporia blainvillei
 Calf/M
 2019
 1,100
 OR193700
 98.5
 ON721294
 I. geoffrensis
ID81
 Steno bredanensis
 Adult/M
 2019
 1,100
 OR193727
 98.5
 ON721294
 I. geoffrensis
ID85
 Pontoporia blainvillei
 Adult/F
 2018
 1,100
 OR183450
 98.5
 JN792314
 Neophocaena phocaenoides asiaeorientalis
ID95
 Orcinus orca
 Juvenile/F
 2020
 1,100
 OR193728
 98.5
 ON721294
 I. geoffrensis
ID119
 Sotalia guianensis
 Juvenile/M
 2022
 330
 OR193742
 100
 ON721299
 I. geoffrensis
ID122
 Pontoporia blainvillei
 Calf/F
 2022
 330
 OR193741
 99.7
 ON721301
 I. boliviensis
ID126
 Sotalia guianensis
 Juvenile/M
 2022
 330
 OR193743
 98.6
 ON721301
 I. boliviensis
ID131
 Arctocephalus tropicalis
 Adult/M
 2020
 1,100
 OR193739
 100
 GU124613
 Zalophus californianus
ID132
 Arctocephalus tropicalis
 Adult/F
 2020
 1,100
 OR193740
 99.3
 GU124613
 Z. californianus
ID144 Arctocephalus gazella Juvenile/M 2021 410 OR193745 99.3 GU124613 Z. californianus

*Mammals were stranded or caught along the coast of Brazil during 2011–2022. bp, base pairs; ID, identification; NA, not applicable. †From GenBank.

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