LILACS – Literatura Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Ciencias de la Salud

Gastrointestinal helminths of two populations of wild pigeons (Columba livia) in Brazil

Abstract The present study analyzed gastrointestinal helminth communities in 265 wild pigeons (Columba livia) living in the municipalities of São Paulo and Tatuí, state of São Paulo, Brazil, over a one-year period. The birds were caught next to grain storage warehouses and were necropsied. A total of ...

Gastrointestinal and external parasites of Enicognathus ferrugineus and Enicognathus leptorhynchus (Aves, Psittacidae) in Chile

Valdebenito, José Osvaldo; Moreno, Lucila; Landaeta-Aqueveque, Carlos; Kinsella, John Mike; Mironov, Sergey; Cicchino, Armando; Troncoso, Ignacio; González-Acuña, Daniel.

Rev. bras. parasitol. vet; 24 (4), 2015

Abstract Parasite species are important components of biodiversity, as they provide valuable information about host health, evolutionary relationships, population structures, trophic interactions, the existence of environmental stresses, and climatic conditions. With the aim of describing the parasites a...

Ascaridia, Ascaridiasis/parasitología, Ascaridiasis/veterinaria, Enfermedades de las Aves/parasitología, Capillaria, Chile, Infestaciones Ectoparasitarias/parasitología, Infestaciones Ectoparasitarias/veterinaria, Infecciones por Enoplida/parasitología, Infecciones por Enoplida/veterinaria, Enfermedades Gastrointestinales/parasitología, Enfermedades Gastrointestinales/veterinaria, Tracto Gastrointestinal/parasitología, Infestaciones por Ácaros/veterinaria, Ácaros, Loros/parasitología

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