Author(s): Moreira, Lucas Machado ; Meyer, Wieland ; Chame, Márcia ; Brandão, Martha Lima ; Vivoni, Adriana Marcos ; Portugal, Juana ; Wanke, Bodo ; Trilles, Luciana
Date: 2022
Origin: Oasisbr
Subject(s): Detecção Molecular; Histoplasma capsulatum; Antarctica; Molecular Detection; Histoplasma capsulatum; Antarctica
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Sydney University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia / Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas. Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.
We detected Histoplasma capsulatum in soil and penguin excreta in the Antarctic Peninsula by sequencing after performing species-specific PCR, confirming previous observations that this pathogen occurs more broadly than suspected. This finding highlights the need for surveillance of emerging agents of systemic mycoses and their transmission among regions, animals, and humans in Antarctica.
