Abstract Austrodiplostomum spp. (Platyhelminthes: Digenea) are endoparasites with a broad geographic distribution in South America. During the larval stage, they parasitize the eyes, brains, muscles, gill, kidneys and swim bladder of a wide variety of fishes. The metacercariae of Austrodiplostomum spp. h...
Abstract Ascocotyle (Phagicola) longa is an etiological agent of human phagicolosis. Mugilids are the second intermediate host, the first being Heleobia australis, and mugilids predatory birds and mammals are its definitive hosts. The occurrence of cysts holding A. longa metacercariae is described in mug...
Abstract Clarias gariepinus is a fish from North of South Africa and was later introduced in several countries, including Brazil. The present study aimed to describe the first report of Diplostomidae metacercariae in C. gariepinus in Brazil. For this, 30 C. gariepinus were captured in a lake in the city ...
Brasil,
Bagres/clasificación,
Bagres/parasitología,
Enfermedades de los Peces/parasitología,
Metacercarias/anatomía & histología,
Metacercarias/clasificación,
Metacercarias/aislamiento & purificación,
Metacercarias/ultraestructura,
Microscopía Electrónica de Rastreo,
Trematodos/anatomía & histología,
Trematodos/clasificación,
Trematodos/aislamiento & purificación,
Trematodos/ultraestructura,
Infecciones por Trematodos/veterinaria
The aim of this paper was to report the occurrence of Austrodiplostomum spp. in the eyes and brain of Acaronia nassa, Caquetaia spectabilis, Satanoperca acuticeps, Curimatella sp. and Crenicichla marmorata in a lake of the Amazon River system in the state of Pará (Brazil). Of 49 fish examined, 10.2% wer...
Fascioliasis is a parasitic disease produced mainly by the fluke Fasciola hepatica. The human infection
is mainly due to the accidental intake of metacercariae present in watercress and/or contaminated water.
The human disease is uncommon in Chile, despite the high prevalence of animal infection, which a...
Abstract Pleurolophocercous cercariae found in the invasive gastropod Melanoides tuberculata (Müller, 1774) collected in a stream of the Vila do Abraão, Ilha Grande, Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil were used for experimental infection that enabled the identification of the heterophyid trematode ...
Abstract This study reports the occurrence of Austrodiplostomum compactum metacercariae in the freshwater fish Schizodon intermedius (ximborê/piava) from a Neotropical reservoir in the Paranapanema River, state of São Paulo, Brazil. From a total of 75 fish collected, we found 38 infected with A. compac...
O presente trabalho teve como objetivo o estudo qualitativo e quantitativo das metacercárias de diplostomídeos em Geophagus brasiliensis (Quoy & Gaimard, 1824) do rio Guandu, Seropédica, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. Entre abril de 2006 e março de 2007, foram coletados e necropsiados 200 espécimes de G. b...
