Molecular Detection of Pathogenic Leptospira sp. in Cetaceans from the Brazilian Coast

Table 1

Summarized results of cetacean’s species sampled in the Brazilian coast (n = 142) submitted to molecular analysis as part of pathogenic Leptospira sp. investigation.

Eco-region	Hosts per Brazilian region		LipL32-PCR
	Scientific name	Common name	Negative	Positive
Warm Temperate Southwestern Atlantic (WAR)	Northeast
	Balaenoptera physalus	Fin whale	1
	Feresa attenuata	Pygmy killer whale	5
	Grampus griseus	Risso’s dolphin	1
	Globicephala macrorhynchus	Short-finned pilot whale	4
	Kogia breviceps	Pygmy sperm whale	2
	Kogia sima	Dwarf sperm whale	5
	Megaptera novaeangliae	Humpback whale	4
	Peponocephala electra	Melon-headed whale	4
	Stenella attenuata	Pantropical spotted dolphin	1
	Stenella clymene	Clymene dolphin	1	1
	Stenella coeruleoalba	Striped dolphin	2
	Sotalia guianensis	Guiana dolphin	30	9
	Stenella longirostris	Spinner dolphin	2
	Tursiops truncatus	Common bottlenose dolphin	1
	Total		63	10
	Southeast
Southwestern Atlantic (SAR)	Balaenoptera autorostrata	Common minke whale	1
	Kogia breviceps	Pygmy sperm whale	1
	Pontoporia blainvillei	La Plata dolphin	8	3
	Steno bredanensis	Ough-toothed dolphin	1
	Sotalia guianensis	Guiana dolphin	10	1
	Total		21	4
	South
	Balaenoptera autorostrata	Common minke whale	1
	Eubalaena australis	Southern right whale	1
	Kogia breviceps	Pygmy sperm whale	1
	Kogia sima	Dwarf sperm whale	1
	Megaptera novaeangliae	Humpback whale	1
	Pontoporia blainvillei	La Plata dolphin	13	4
	Steno bredanensis	Ough-toothed dolphin	1	1
	Stenella coeruleoalba	Striped dolphin	1
	Stenella frontalis	Atlantic spotted dolphin	3
	Sotalia guianensis	Guiana dolphin	2
	Stenella longirostris	Spinner dolphin	1
	Stenella sp.	Without species classification	1
	Tursiops truncatus	Common bottlenose dolphin	10	2
	Total		37	7
	Total		121	21

PCR, polymerase chain reaction.