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Rangelia vitalii and Hepatozoon canis coinfection in pampas fox Lycalopex gymno...
Silva,Maria Regina Lucas da; Mattoso,Cláudio Roberto Scabelo; Costa,Adson; Saito,Mere Erika; Tchaicka,Lygia; O’Dwyer,Lucia HelenaAbstract Rangelia vitalii is a haemoparasite that infects erythrocytes, white blood cells and the cytoplasm of endothelial cells of blood capillaries of canids in South America, and has been detected in both domestic dogs and sylvatic canids. Hepatozoon canis is a parasite that infects neutrophils and monocytes of many mammalian hosts. This study reports the infection of Lycalopex gymnocercus from Santa Catarin...
Hepatozoon canis and Leishmania spp. coinfection in dogs diagnosed with viscera...
Morgado,Fernanda Nazaré; Cavalcanti,Amanda dos Santos; Miranda,Luisa Helena de; O’Dwyer,Lúcia Helena; Silva,Maria Regina Lucas daAbstract This study describes the occurrence of dogs naturally co-infected with Hepatozoon canis and two Leishmania species: L. infantum or L. braziliensis. Four dogs serologically diagnosed with Visceral Leishmaniasis were euthanized. Liver and spleen samples were collected for histopathological analysis and DNA isolation. H. canis meronts were observed in tissues from all four dogs. H. canis infection was con...
Differentiation of Haemonchus placei from Haemonchus contortus by PCR and by mo...
Santos,Michelle Cardoso dos; Amarante,Mônica Regina Vendrame; Silva,Maria Regina Lucas da; Amarante,Alessandro Francisco Talamini doMolecular and morphological methods were evaluated to distinguish between Haemonchus contortus and Haemonchus placei species. A total of 141 H. contortus and 89 H. placei male adult specimens collected from artificially infected lambs were identified individually by PCR analysis, using a species-specific primer pair. These PCR results were used as gold standard for Haemonchus spp. identification. Haemonchus pla...