Neotropical echinococcosis: Second report of Echinococcus vogeli natural infection in its main definitive host, the bush dog (Speothos venaticus)

作者：Pereira Soares Manoel do Carmo; Souza de Souza Alex Junior; Malheiros Andreza Pinheiro; Nunes Heloisa Marceliano; Carneiro Liliane Almeida; Alves Max Moreira; da Conceicao Bernardo Farias; Gomes Gouvea Michele Soares; Povoa Marinete Marins

来源：Parasitology International, 2014, 63(2): 485-487.

DOI：10.1016/j.parint.2013.10.004

• Polycystic Echinococcosis
• Hydatidosis
• Echinococcus vogeli
• Speothos venaticus
• Zoonoses

The bush dog (Speothos venaticus) acts as the natural definitive host in the life cycle of Echinococcus vogeli, the causative agent of polycystic hydatid disease, a zoonotic neglected disease in the South America. We report a case of natural infection by Echinococcus vogeli in a bush dog from the Brazilian Amazon, confirmed by the morphological and morphometric examination of adult parasites and their hooks obtained from the small intestine of the canid. Additionally, mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis corroborated these findings. This is the second report of natural infection by E. vogeli in a bush dog.

• 出版日期2014-4
• 单位河北医科大学