Marcos Rogério André, Priscila Ikeda, Daniel Antônio Braga Lee, Renan Bressianini do Amaral, Lucas Amoroso Lopes Carvalho, Daniel Guariz Pinheiro, Jaire Marinho Torres, Victória Valente Califre de Mello, Gregory K Rice, Regina Z Cer, Elizabete Captivo Lourenço, Carisa Elisei Oliveira, Heitor Miraglia Herrera, Darci Moraes Barros-Battesti, Rosangela Zacarias Machado, Kimberly A Bishop-Lilly, Clifton L Dalgard, J Stephen Dumler
INTRODUCTION: Bats, along with their ectoparasites, harbor a wide diversity of symbiotic and potential pathogenic bacteria. Despite the enormous diversity of bats (181 species), few studies aimed to investigate the bacterial microbiome of Brazilian chiropterans and associated ectoparasites. This study aimed to characterize the bacterial microbiome of non-hematophagous bats and associated Streblidae flies and Macronyssidae and Spinturnicidae mites in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul, midwestern Brazil...
2023: Frontiers in Microbiology