Acknowledgements
The authors would like to give special thanks to Doctor Chunlei Su for
the precious support in electrophoresis analysis. Thanks to all the
Wildlife Division (Cemacas) staff, Biological Sample Management Center
(NGAB), and Pathology Center, Adolfo Lutz Institute. Thanks to Vinícius
Gomes da Silva and Silvana de Melo Pereira da Silva for technical
support. Doctor Hilda Fátima de Jesus Pena for pattern strains. Doctor
Roberto Mitsuyoshi Hiramoto for the positive control and Vera Lúcia
Pereira-Chioccola for the technical guidance on genotyping. The authors
thank all fundings: Support Group to Prevention and Protection to the
Health (GAPS/FESIMA grant #28/2020 and #040/2019), the Wildlife and to
Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES;
grant # 88887.374652/2019-00), the financial support for Santos ALM
Master’s study and the National Research Council (CNPq; grant
#304999-18) for Catão-Dias JL fellowship. The funders had no role in
study design, data collection, analysis, decision to publish, or
manuscript preparation.