Abstract The genus Cotylophoron belongs to the Paramphistomidae family and its definitive hosts are ruminants in general. This work describes the presence of a new species of the gender, a parasite in the rumen and reticulum of Bubalus bubalis, on Marajó Island in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon, using of ...
Abstract Siganids are the most important marine fish distributed along the African coast. Therefore, the current study aimed to investigate parasite fauna infects one of the most important mariculture fish species in the Red Sea, the Rabbit fish Siganus rivulatus. One acanthocephalan species has been iso...
Barbosa, Tatiane Alves;
Thiengo, Silvana Carvalho;
Fernandez, Monica Ammon;
Graeff-Teixeira, Carlos;
Morassutti, Alessandra Loureiro;
Mourão, Fábio Rodrigo Paixão;
Miranda, Clóvis Omar Sá;
Jorge, Michel de Moraes;
Costa, Liliane Freitas;
Gomes, Suzete Rodrigues.
In January and February 2019, a malacological survey was conducted in the area surrounding the residence of a 12-year-old child that had contracted cerebral angiostrongyliasis in the municipality of Macapá, capital of the Amapá State, northern Brazil. The serological examination was positive for Angios...
Palmer, João Pedro Siqueira;
Dib, Laís Verdan;
Lobão, Lucas Fernandes;
Pinheiro, Jessica Lima;
Ramos, Raissa Cristina Ferreira;
Uchoa, Claudia Maria Antunes;
Bastos, Otilio Machado Pereira;
Silva, Maria Eduarda Monteiro;
Nascimento, Jorge Luiz do;
Pissinatti, Alcides;
Barbosa, Alynne da Silva.
Abstract Specimens of Oncicola venezuelensis (Marteau, 1977) were recovered from fragments of intestinal tissue of a female Puma concolar (Linn, 1771) found dead in Petrópolis, Rio de Janeiro in 2017. A total of 140 helminths were recovered. Five males and 5 females of the helminths were analyzed morpho...
Cerda, Carolina;
Veloso-Frías, Joseline;
Lobos-Chávez, Felipe;
Oyarzún-Ruiz, Pablo;
Henríquez, AnaLía;
Loyola, Marco;
Fuente, María Carolina Silva-de la;
Ortega, René;
Letelier, Reinaldo;
Landaeta-Aqueveque, Carlos.
Abstract This research aimed to determine the presence of paramphistomids in cattle slaughtered in a slaughterhouse of the Ñuble Region of Chile, to identify flukes and to analyze the frequency of these parasites in the Maule, Ñuble, and Biobío administrative regions of Chile. Between October of 2016 ...
Abstract Renicolids are parasites that inhabit the renal tubules and ureters of molluscivorous and piscivorous birds. Puffinus puffinus is a migratory seabird that was identified as the definitive host of Renicola spp. Studies focusing on the renicolid species and the resulting renal lesions are valuable...
Enfermedades de las Aves/parasitología,
Aves/parasitología,
ADN de Helmintos/genética,
ADN Mitocondrial/genética,
ADN Ribosómico/genética,
Riñón/parasitología,
Filogenia,
Análisis de Secuencia de ADN,
Trematodos/clasificación,
Trematodos/genética,
Trematodos/aislamiento & purificación,
Trematodos/ultraestructura
The genetic information of ancient Paragonimus westermani, the oriental lung fluke infecting over 20 million people worldwide, has not been thoroughly investigated thus far. We analysed genetic markers (COI and ITS2) of P. westermani from coprolite specimens (n = 6) obtained from 15th to 18th century Kor...
Asia,
ADN de Helmintos/genética,
ADN Espaciador Ribosómico/genética,
Complejo IV de Transporte de Electrones/genética,
Heces/parasitología,
Momias/parasitología,
Paleodontología,
Paragonimus westermani/genética,
Paragonimus westermani/aislamiento & purificación,
Recuento de Huevos de Parásitos,
Filogenia
Abstract Entomopathogenic nematodes (EPN) belonging to the Heterorhabditidae family are lethal parasites of soil-dwelling insects. Two species were reported in Argentina: Heterorhabditis argentinensis and Heterorhabditis bacteriophora characterized mainly by morphometric features. In this work a comparat...
Argentina,
Agentes de Control Biológico,
ADN de Helmintos/genética,
Insectos/crecimiento & desarrollo,
Insectos/parasitología,
Larva/crecimiento & desarrollo,
Larva/parasitología,
Filogenia,
Rhabditoidea/anatomía & histología,
Rhabditoidea/clasificación,
Rhabditoidea/genética,
Rhabditoidea/fisiología
