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Highly divergent herpesviruses in threatened river dolphins from Brazil

Made available in DSpace on 2022-04-29T08:38:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2021-12-01; Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); River dolphins are a highly threatened polyphyletic group comprised of four odontocete families: Iniidae, Pontoporiidae, Lipotidae, and Platanistidae, the first two endemi...

Metazoan parasites of cetaceans off the northeastern coast of Brazil

This study represents the first survey of the parasitic fauna of cetaceans off the northeastern coast of Brazil. Parasites were collected from 82 animals rescued from the states of Ceará to Bahia, including the archipelago of Fernando de Noronha. A total of 14 species of cetaceans were evaluated: Sotalia guianensis, Stenella sp., Stenella clymene, Stenella longirostris, Stenella coeruleoalba, Stenella frontalis...

Ogmogaster antarctica (Digenea: Notocotylidae) infecting a dwarf minke whale Ba...

Made available in DSpace on 2020-12-10T19:50:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2020-02-24; Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq); Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP); Fundo deApoio a Pesquisa FAP/UNIVILLE; Digeneans of the genus Ogmogaster Jagerskiold, 1891 are intestinal parasites of whales and pinnipeds. Due to the difficulty in recov...

Helminths of sotalia guianensis (Cetacea: Delphinidae) from the South and South...

From May 1997 to October 2000, 49 Sotalia guianensis (tucuxi dolphin) incidentally caught in fishing nets or stranded in São Paulo (SP) and Paraná (PR) states in Brazil were necropsied. In total, 17 lungs, 35 stomachs, and 30 intestines were analyzed. Contents were washed through a sieve (mesh, 1.50 mm) and examined under a stereoscopic microscope for parasites. Histopathologic analyses were performed in the lu...

Toxoplasmosis in a Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guianensis) from Paraná, Brazil

This study describes toxoplasmosis in a by caught Guiana dolphin (Sotalia guinensis) from Paranaguá Bay, Paraná, Brazil. Interstitial pneumonia, multisystemic arteritis, multifocal adrenalitis and hepatitis were the primary lesions observed. These tissues had moderate to severe necrosis and mononuclear cells infiltration usually surrounded by tachyzoites and tissue cysts. Moderate lymphoid depletion was evident...

Toxoplasma gondii in cetaceans of Brazil: a histopathological and immunohistoch...

Made available in DSpace on 2019-10-03T17:31:47Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2019-07-01. Added 1 bitstream(s) on 2019-10-04T16:20:52Z : No. of bitstreams: 1 S1984-29612019000300395.pdf: 1618147 bytes, checksum: fb605dbbcf2023bcf2f243b292725f78 (MD5); Resumo Toxoplasmose é uma doença parasitária causada pelo protozoário Toxoplasma gondii. A infecção por T. gondii é uma causa significativa de...

A new Synthesium species (Digenea: Brachycladiidae) from the bottlenose dolphin...

Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-11T16:46:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 0 Previous issue date: 2017-05-01; A new species of Synthesium from the bottlenose dolphin Tursiops truncatus in South Brazilian waters is described. Morphological and molecular identification was performed, and phylogenetic analyses were carried out using the ribosomal small subunit and internal transcribed spacer 1 and the mitochondria...

Pseudoterranova ceticola and Anisakis paggiae: new records from Kogia breviceps...