Table 3.
Pneumocystis carriage in batsa
| Origin | Bat species | Targeted loci | No. of Pneumocystis PCR-positive samples/total number of tested samples by sampling area |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Trinitaria cave, Chiapas, Mexico | Isla de Janitzio cave, Michoacán, Mexico | Juxtlahuacave, Colotlipa Guerrero, Mexico | El Salitre, cave, Hidalgo, Mexico | El Salitre, cave Santa Rosa, Morelos, Mexico | La Boca cave, Nuevo León, Mexico | Dique Escaba, Tucumán, Argentina | French Guyana | Natural History Museum Bourges, France | La Palmyre zoological park, France | All areas | |||
| Wild microchiropters of the New World | Tadarida brasiliensis | LSU | 0/10 | 2/6 | 5/20 | 16/27 | 7/16 | 30/79 | |||||
| SSU | 2/10 | 2/6 | 4/20 | 17/27 | 7/16 | 32/79 | |||||||
| Carrier | 2/10 | 2/6 | 5/20 | 19/27 | 8/16 | 36/79 | |||||||
| Artibeus hirsutus | LSU | 2/5 | 2/5 | ||||||||||
| SSU | 3/5 | 3/55 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 3/5 | 3/5 | |||||||||||
| Mormoops megalophylla | LSU | 0/2 | 0/1 | 0/3 | |||||||||
| SSU | 0/2 | 0/1 | 0/3 | ||||||||||
| Carrier | 0/2 | 0/1 | 0/3 | ||||||||||
| Myotis californicus | LSU | 1/1 | 1/1 | ||||||||||
| SSU | 1/1 | 1/1 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 1/1 | 1/1 | |||||||||||
| Pteronotus parnellii | LSU | 0/2 | 0/1 | 0/3 | |||||||||
| SSU | 0/2 | 1/1 | 1/3 | ||||||||||
| Carrier | 0/2 | 1/1 | 1/3 | ||||||||||
| Natalus stramineus | LSU | 1/8 | 1/8 | ||||||||||
| SSU | 0/8 | 0/8 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 1/8 | 1/8 | |||||||||||
| Pteronotus davyi | LSU | 0/1 | 0/1 | ||||||||||
| SSU | 0/1 | 0/1 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 0/1 | 0/1 | |||||||||||
| Glossophaga soricina | LSU | 3/4 | 6/12 | 9/16 | |||||||||
| SSU | 2/4 | 6/12 | 8/16 | ||||||||||
| Carrier | 3/4 | 6/12 | 9/16 | ||||||||||
| Carollia perspicillata | LSU | 0/1 | 0/1 | ||||||||||
| SSU | 0/1 | 0/1 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 0/1 | 0/1 | |||||||||||
| Wild microchiropters of the Old World | Nyctalus noctula | LSU | 5/20 | 5/20 | |||||||||
| SSU | 6/20 | 6/20 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 6/20 | 6/20 | |||||||||||
| Pipistrellus pipistrellus | LSU | 1/9 | 1/9 | ||||||||||
| SSU | 3/9 | 3/9 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 3/9 | 3/9 | |||||||||||
| Eptesicus serotinus | LSU | 2/2 | 2/2 | ||||||||||
| SSU | 2/2 | 2/2 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 2/2 | 2/2 | |||||||||||
| Nyctalus leisleri | LSU | 0/1 | 0/1 | ||||||||||
| SSU | 0/1 | 0/1 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 0/1 | 0/1 | |||||||||||
| Myotis daubentoni | LSU | 0/1 | 0/1 | ||||||||||
| SSU | 0/1 | 0/1 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 0/1 | 0/1 | |||||||||||
| Myotis myotis | LSU | 0/2 | 0/2 | ||||||||||
| SSU | 0/2 | 0/2 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 0/2 | 0/2 | |||||||||||
| Plecotus austriacus | LSU | 0/1 | 0/1 | ||||||||||
| SSU | 1/1 | 1/1 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 1/1 | 1/1 | |||||||||||
| Plecotus auritus | LSU | 2/2 | 2/2 | ||||||||||
| SSU | 1/2 | 1/2 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 2/2 | 2/2 | |||||||||||
| Captive megachiropters of the Old World | Rousettus aegyptiacus | LSU | 4/17 | 4/17 | |||||||||
| SSU | 6/17 | 6/17 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 6/17 | 6/17 | |||||||||||
| Pteropus rodricensis | LSU | 0/44 | 0/44 | ||||||||||
| SSU | 0/44 | 0/44 | |||||||||||
| Carrier | 0/44 | 0/44 | |||||||||||
| All areas | All species | Positive Pneumocystis samples/total samples | 2/10 | 2/6 | 4/17 | 6/21 | 3/5 | 20/29 | 8/16 | 6/13 | 14/38 | 6/61 | 71/216 |
| Pneumocystis carriage (%) | 20.0 | 33.3 | 23.5 | 28.6 | 60.0 | 69.0 | 50.0 | 46.2 | 36.8 | 9.8 | 32.9 | ||
a
DNA lung samples were screened by nested PCR at either the mtLSU rRNA (LSU) or mtSSU rRNA (SSU) locus or both loci for the presence of Pneumocystis. Results of Pneumocystis carriage in bats are given according to bat species, targeted locus, and sampling area. LSU, samples that are positive at the LSU locus, and some of these samples can also be positive at SSU; SSU, samples that are positive at the SSU locus, and some of these samples can also be positive at LSU; Carrier, a bat lung sample was considered positive for Pneumocystis DNA when nested PCR was positive at either mtLSU rRNA or mtSSU rRNA or at both loci.