Dioctophyma renale em Lobo-Guará na região geoeconômica de Jataí, GO, Brasil - relato de caso

Resumo

The maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) (Illiger, 1815) is the largest animal that represents the canidae species at the South America. The Dioctophyme renale (Goeze, 1782) known as the giant kidney-worm, because it is used to lodges mostly this organs, and it has been also responsible for the majority of captive animals deaths. A maned wolf necropsy was done at the animal anatomy laboratory of the Universidade Federal de Goiás (UFG) - Campus Jataí and showed a nematode in the right kidney of the wild dog. This is the second confirmed case report of maned wolf that have free life in the city of Jataí and in State of Goiás, that suggests that is a common parasitism in this region of the country.

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Animal silvestre, Chrysocyon brachyurus, Parasito, Dioctofimose, Patologia, Rim, Dioctophymiasis, Chrysocyon brachyurus, Parasite, Kidney, Pathology, Wild animal

Citação

VULCANI, Valcinir Aloisio Scalla; FRANZO, Vanessa Sobue; ARAÚJO, Diego Pereira de; VICENTIN, Felipe Roncatto; COSTA, Otávio Marins da; RANGEL, Aynna Silva; GOMES, Luanna Alves. Dioctophyma renale em Lobo-Guará na região geoeconômica de Jataí, GO, Brasil - relato de caso. Revista Brasileira de Medicina Veterinária, Seropédica, v. 37, n. 2, p. 149-152, abr./jun. 2015.