title: First report of coenurosis in sheep in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil.
abstract: This paper reports the first case of coenurosis in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil. This disease is caused by the larval stage of the tapeworm Taenia multiceps (Leske, 1780). The animal in which the disease was diagnosed was an 18-month-old ewe from an endemic area of Southern Brazil as an imported animal among a group of 30 sheep. The clinic-pathological condition was that commonly found in herbivores affected by the disease, especially sheep. Apathy, nystagmus, intermittent blindness, circling and pressing head against obstacles were the neurological signs reported. The necropsy showed that a brain lesion in the subcortex of the right hemisphere was a bladder-like cyst measuring 4 cm in diameter filled with a translucent fluid with a large number of white spherules (protoscolices) floating. In addition to the identification of the Coenurus cerebralis protoscolices, the brain tissue lesion was histopathologically described.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Cirurgia de Grandes Animais, Hospital Veterinário da UFLA, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Campus Universitário, Lavras-MG, Brazil. zpt5151@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Fernando Arévalo
authors.initials: FA
authors.lastname: Batista
authors.forename: Dietrich
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pizzigatti
authors.forename: Charles Ferreira
authors.initials: CF
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.forename: Marcelo Monteiro
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Nunes
authors.forename: Tábata Torres
authors.initials: TT
authors.lastname: Megda
authors.forename: Olímpio Crisóstomo
authors.initials: OC
authors.lastname: Ribeiro
authors.forename: Fernando
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Paiva
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000662:veterinary*; D005260:Female; D012756:Sheep; D012757:Sheep Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis*