Title
First report of filarial nematodes in free-living pitheciid primates
Date Issued
04 March 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidade Federal do Pará
Publisher(s)
Springer Netherlands
Abstract
Although little studied, infections with nematodes of the Onchocercidae Leiper, 1911, predominated by the genera Dipetalonema Diesing, 1861 and Mansonella Faust, 1929, are frequent in wild primates and human populations in the Neotropical forest areas. This study reports natural infections with Dipetalonema freitasi Bain, Diagne & Muller, 1987 and D. gracile (Rudolphi, 1809) in two free-living species of pitheciid primates, extending the known geographical distribution of these species to the forest of the Peruvian Amazon. Adult worms were recovered from the thoracic and abdominal cavities of two species of monkeys, Pithecia monachus monachus (É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire) and Cacajao calvus ucayalii (Thomas) (Primates: Pitheciidae), collected along the Yavari-Mirin River basin and analysed via light and scanning electron microscopy. Both host species represent new host records for D. freitasi and D. gracile. Morphometric data are also presented for the sampled filarial worms in addition to morphological details obtained through light and electron microscopy examination of D. freitasi specimens.
Start page
257
End page
264
Volume
96
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Enfermedades infecciosas
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85061510641
PubMed ID
Source
Systematic Parasitology
ISSN of the container
01655752
Sponsor(s)
The authors gratefully acknowledge the people of Nueva Esperanza, who actively participated in data collection, thus demonstrating that communal participation is an important step in wildlife management, and the institutional support from SERFOR of the Ministerio de Agricultura del Peru, the Earthwatch Institute and the Fundació Autònoma Solidà ria (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona). We also thank Raul Henrique da Silva Pinheiro and the Laboratory of Animal Histology and Embryology (LHEA/ISPA-Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia).
Funding This study was funded by the Coordenadoria de Aperfeic¸oamento de Pessoal de NÃvel Superior (CAPES), grant PAPQ 2017-PROPESP/UFPA, and a research grant from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento CientÃfico e Tecnológico (CNPq) of Brazil to JNS. This work is part of the doctoral thesis of DFC developed in the Post-Graduate Programme of the Biology of Infectious and Parasitic Agents of the Universidade Federal do Pará.
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