RESUMEN Se presentó un caso clínico de un paciente de seis años de edad, con toxocariasis ocular. La manifestación clínica fue disminución de la agudeza visual monocular. El fondo de ojo izquierdo mostró un granuloma retiniano periférico, asociado a un desgarro retiniano perilesional. El examen o...
Abstract Priacanthus arenatus is a fish that occurs in the waters of the western Atlantic Ocean and has few records of parasitism. This study aimed to report histological changes caused by the larvae of Hysterothylacium deardorffoverstreetorum. Between July and December, 2013, 30 samples of P. arenatus w...
An anisakid nematode larva found in cod sold in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil was studied by light and scanning electron microscopy and by a molecular approach. Mitochondrial cytochrome c-oxidase subunit 2 (mtDNA cox-2), 28S rRNA and ITS1, 5.8S and ITS2 regions were amplified using the polymerase cha...
