Title
Description of pulmonary lesions by Pseudalius inflexus in the porpoise Phocaena spinipinnis
Other title
Descripción de lesiones pulmonares por Pseudalius inflexus en la marsopa Phocaena spinipinnis
Date Issued
01 August 2010
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
Asociacion de Biologos de la Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos
Abstract
Pulmonary lesions caused by the nematode Pseudalius inflexus (Rudolphi, 1808) Schneider, 1866; in two specimens, male and female of Burmeister's Porpoise (Phocoena spinipinnis Burmeisteir, 1865). The Cetaceans were captured in the Reserva Nacional de Paracas, Peru. Macroscopically, the lung shown superficial harden nodules of 52 cm of diameter and on the cut surface the nematodes were seen surrounded by severe chronic inflammatory reaction and the bronchium are occluded by the cranial part of these parasites and the caudal part remains free. Microscopically, the parasites are shown in different degree of degeneration and they are surrounded by severe inflammatory exudate composed of eosinophils, macrophages, mononuclear cells, multinuclear giant cells and dense granulation tissue scattered by the pulmonary parenchyma with distended and necrotic alveoli. Other lesions included hyperplasia of bronchium mucosa and hyperplasia of the arterial smooth muscle with luminal obliteration. Therefore, a severe eosinophilic granulomatous bronchopneumonia is caused by P. inflexus and is the first description of the parasitic pulmonary lesions in P. spinipinnis.
Start page
261
End page
264
Volume
17
Issue
2
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Ciencia veterinaria
Sistema respiratorio
Parasitología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84991345452
Source
Revista Peruana de Biologia
ISSN of the container
15610837
Sponsor(s)
Entre los helmintos reportados para P. spinipinnis están los nemátodes Stenurus australis (Sarmiento & Tantaleán, 1991), Halocercus sp. y P. inflexus, éste último de P. spinipinnis del litoral de Chimbote, departamento de Ancash (Tantaleán 1993) y de la Reserva Nacional de Paracas en Ica (Tantaleán & Cabrera 1999). Existen pocos estudios sobre muerte y lesiones producidas por helmintos (Montes et al. 2004) o por otras causas (van Bresem et al. 2007) en cetáceos en el Perú; en particular no se conocían las lesiones patológicas que ocasiona P. inflexus en P. spinipinnis en las costas de América del Sur.
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