Pathology and first report of natural infections of the eye trematode Philophthalmus lachrymosus Braun, 1902 (Digenea, Philophthalmidae) in a non-human mammalian host.
The avian eye trematode Philophthalmus lachrymosus Braun, 1902 is for the first time referred naturally occurring in a non-human mammalian host. Previously, natural infections with P. lachrymosus and other species of Philophthalmus have been occasionally reported from man, with few data on experimental infections of non-human mammals. Results presented here are related to the report of two cases of philophthalmosis due to natural infections of wild Brazilian capybaras, Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris L., 1766 with P. lachrymosus and associated pathology. Clinical signs, gross and microscopic lesions as well as new morphometric data on the parasite are presented.
Pinto
Roberto Magalhães
RM
Laboratório de Helmintos Parasitos de Vertebrados, Departamento de Helmintologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21040-900, Brasil. rmpinto@ioc.fiocruz.br
dos Santos
Leonilda Correia
LC
Tortelly
Rogerio
R
Menezes
Rodrigo Caldas
RC
de Moraes
Wanderlei
W
Juvenal
Julio Cesar
JC
Gomes
Delir Corrêa
DC
D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D001938:Brazil; D015822:Eye Infections, Parasitic / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D012377:Rodentia / Q000469:parasitology*; D014200:Trematoda / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D014201:Trematode Infections / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*