title: When things go wrong: Cysticercus longicollis in an adult wild red fox (Vulpes vulpes).
abstract: First case of Cysticercus longicollis, larval stage of Taenia crassiceps, was diagnosed in a wild adult male red fox (Vulpes vulpes). The fox was killed by dogs at Nature Park Medvednica and presented to the University of Zagreb Faculty of Veterinary Medicine with history of being unable to run away and having skin lesions on legs that resembled to those of mange. Necropsy revealed whitish fluctuant mass full of cysticercus-like structures, surrounded by fibrous capsule and placed between the leg muscles, and numerous of spherical cysts in the subcutis and in the peritoneal cavity. Cysticerci were identified as C. longicollis based on their size, number and size of the rostellar hooks, mode of proliferation and DNA analysis. To our knowledge, this is the first case of T. crassiceps cysticercosis in a wild carnivore.
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Economics and Epidemiology, University of Zagreb Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Heinzelova 55, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia. dean.konjevic@vef.hr.
authors.forename: Dean
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Konjević
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases with Clinic, University of Zagreb Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Heinzelova 55, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Tatjana
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Živičnjak
authors.affiliation: Department of Veterinary Pathology, University of Zagreb Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Heinzelova 55, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Andrea Gudan
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Kurilj
authors.affiliation: Department for Game Biology, Pathology and Breeding, University of Zagreb Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Heinzelova 55, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Magda
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sindičić
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases with Clinic, University of Zagreb Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Heinzelova 55, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Franjo
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Martinković
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases with Clinic, University of Zagreb Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Heinzelova 55, 10000, Zagreb, Croatia.
authors.forename: Dagny Stojčević
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Jan
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003551:Cysticercosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000662:veterinary*; D003552:Cysticercus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005589:Foxes; D008297:Male
keywords: Cysticercus longicollis; Nature Park Medvednica; Red fox; Taenia crassiceps; Vulpes vulpes