Domestic horses within the Maya biosphere reserve: A possible threat to the Central American tapir (Tapirus bairdii)

Caldasia

Luis E. Escobar¹  Nicholas M. Fountain-Jones²  Manuel Lepe-López³  Mariano Gonzalez⁴  Rony García-Anleu⁴  Gabriela Ponce⁴ 

[1] Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, USA.;Department of Veterinary Population Medicine, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA.;PhD Program in Conservation Medicine, Facultad de Ciencias de la Vida, Universidad Andres Bello. Santiago, Chile.;Wildlife Conservation Society, Flores Island, Petén, Guatemala.;

关键词: Equine Infectious Anemia disease;    Lentivirus;    Spillover;    Wildlife diseases.;   

DOI  :  10.15446/caldasia.v40n1.63654

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

The Central American tapir (Tapirus bairdii) is the largest herbivore in the Neotropics classified as “endangered.” It has been proposed that Equine Infectious Anemia virus (EIA) is a disease of horses with potential to lead to further decline of T. bairdii populations. In this study, we used domestic horses as sentinels for EIA in the Maya Biosphere Reserve in Guatemala. In total, 40 % (13) horses tested were seropositive to EIA. This study may inform wildlife management strategies inside protected areas by considering the threat from incursions of domestic animals inside core areas of natural reserves.

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