Juliana Mariotti Guerra, Pedro Enrique Navas-Suárez, Eduardo Ferreira-Machado, Ticiana Brasil Ervedosa, Ketlyn Bolsachini Figueiredo, Ana Carolina Souza Ramos de Carvalho, Maraya Lincoln Silva, Mayara Grego Caiaffa, André Luiz Mota da Costa, Rodrigo Hidalgo Friciello Teixeira, Thais Eleonora Madeira Buti, Adriana Luchs, Gislene Mitsue Namiyama, Luana Barbosa de Lima, Noemi Nosomi Taniwaki, Patricia Sayuri Silvestre Matsumoto, Natália Coelho Couto de Azevedo Fernandes
Brazilian porcupine poxvirus (BPoPV) is a new poxvirus recently described in porcupines (Coendou prehensilis) from Brazil. Herein, we described a free-ranging adult male Coendou (Sphiggurus) spinosus rescued after being found lethargic on the ground in a rural area. The animal presented crusty, edematous, and suppurative skin lesions on the face, tail, and perineum, and yellowish ocular secretion. The diagnosis was performed by histopathology, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), PCR, and sequencing. Microscopically, proliferative and necrotizing dermatitis, subacute, multifocal with ballooning degeneration, and eosinophilic intracytoplasmic viral inclusion bodies were observed...
July 29, 2022: Brazilian Journal of Microbiology: [publication of the Brazilian Society for Microbiology]