title: Pathology and first report of natural infections of the eye trematode Philophthalmus lachrymosus Braun, 1902 (Digenea, Philophthalmidae) in a non-human mammalian host.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Helmintos Parasitos de Vertebrados, Departamento de Helmintologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ 21040-900, Brasil. rmpinto@ioc.fiocruz.br
authors.forename: Roberto Magalhães
authors.initials: RM
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.forename: Leonilda Correia
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: dos Santos
authors.forename: Rogerio
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Tortelly
authors.forename: Rodrigo Caldas
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Menezes
authors.forename: Wanderlei
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: de Moraes
authors.forename: Julio Cesar
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Juvenal
authors.forename: Delir Corrêa
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Gomes
mesh_terms: 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*