A CASE OF HEPATIC CYSTICERCOSIS IN A DROMEDARY CALF

作者：Schuster Rolf Karl^*; Kinne Joerg; Boufana Belgees; Varcasia Antonio

来源：Journal of Camel Practice and Research, 2015, 22(2): 193-197.

DOI：10.5958/2277-8934.2015.00031.4

• Cysticercus tenuicollis
• DNA sequencing
• dromedary
• Taenia hydatigena

A camel calf died shortly after it was translocated together with its mother from Pakistan to a farm in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates. Necropsy revealed severe alterations in the liver caused by bladder-like structures which appeared to be parasitic in nature and measured between 3-6 mm in size. Parasitological and histological examination showed structures resembling cysticerci at early stages of development. DNA sequencing of fragments amplified within the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 (cox1) and the NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1 (ND1) revealed that the infection had been caused by Cysticercus tenuicollis, the metacestode larval stage of Taenia hydatigena. The majority of the metacestode cysts of C. tenuicollis (30/36) observed at necropsy were in a stage of caseous degeneration which suggested that the dromedary may be an aberrant host of this parasite.

• 出版日期2015-12