OCCURRENCE OF Calodium hepaticum (BANCROFT, 1893) MORAVEC, 1982 EGGS IN FECES OF DOGS AND CATS IN LAGES, SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL
This study aims to report the incidence of Calodium hepaticum among dogs and cats, pets or stray animals, captured by the Zoonosis Control Center (CCZ) in Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Fecal samples from 108 pet dogs and eight pet cats, and from 357 stray dogs and 97 stray cats, captured by CCZ, we...
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ftdoajarticles:oai:doaj.org/article:54c1ca643688425f82448741a42300c3 2024-09-09T19:25:53+00:00 OCCURRENCE OF Calodium hepaticum (BANCROFT, 1893) MORAVEC, 1982 EGGS IN FECES OF DOGS AND CATS IN LAGES, SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL Rosiléia Marinho de QUADROS Paulo Henrique Exterchoter WEISS Luiz Claudio MILETTI Anderson Barbosa de MOURA 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946201658006 https://doaj.org/article/54c1ca643688425f82448741a42300c3 EN eng Universidade de São Paulo (USP) http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0036-46652016005000205&lng=en&tlng=en https://doaj.org/toc/1678-9946 1678-9946 doi:10.1590/S1678-9946201658006 https://doaj.org/article/54c1ca643688425f82448741a42300c3 Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, Vol 58, Iss 0 (2016) Calodium hepaticum Pets Stray animals Public health Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 article 2016 ftdoajarticles https://doi.org/10.1590/S1678-9946201658006 2024-08-05T17:49:31Z This study aims to report the incidence of Calodium hepaticum among dogs and cats, pets or stray animals, captured by the Zoonosis Control Center (CCZ) in Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Fecal samples from 108 pet dogs and eight pet cats, and from 357 stray dogs and 97 stray cats, captured by CCZ, were analyzed within the period from July 2010 to November 2012. Coproparasitological exams were performed by techniques of sedimentation, centrifuge-flotation, and simple flotation. Among 465 fecal samples from dogs and 105 from cats, the overall spurious infections for C. hepaticum eggs were 1.05%. For dogs, this positivity was 0.43% and for cats it was 3.81%. The two positive dogs were stray and out of the four cats, three were stray and one was a pet. Although the occurrence of C. hepaticum eggs was low, these data reveal the existence of infected rodents, especially in public places, since, out of the six infected animals, five (83.33%) were stray. These results are discussed and analyzed with an emphasis on the risk to public health. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Directory of Open Access Journals: DOAJ Articles Arctic Bancroft ENVELOPE(-61.860,-61.860,-64.566,-64.566) Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo 58 0 |
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Calodium hepaticum Pets Stray animals Public health Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine RC955-962 Infectious and parasitic diseases RC109-216 Rosiléia Marinho de QUADROS Paulo Henrique Exterchoter WEISS Luiz Claudio MILETTI Anderson Barbosa de MOURA OCCURRENCE OF Calodium hepaticum (BANCROFT, 1893) MORAVEC, 1982 EGGS IN FECES OF DOGS AND CATS IN LAGES, SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL |
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This study aims to report the incidence of Calodium hepaticum among dogs and cats, pets or stray animals, captured by the Zoonosis Control Center (CCZ) in Lages, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Fecal samples from 108 pet dogs and eight pet cats, and from 357 stray dogs and 97 stray cats, captured by CCZ, were analyzed within the period from July 2010 to November 2012. Coproparasitological exams were performed by techniques of sedimentation, centrifuge-flotation, and simple flotation. Among 465 fecal samples from dogs and 105 from cats, the overall spurious infections for C. hepaticum eggs were 1.05%. For dogs, this positivity was 0.43% and for cats it was 3.81%. The two positive dogs were stray and out of the four cats, three were stray and one was a pet. Although the occurrence of C. hepaticum eggs was low, these data reveal the existence of infected rodents, especially in public places, since, out of the six infected animals, five (83.33%) were stray. These results are discussed and analyzed with an emphasis on the risk to public health. |
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OCCURRENCE OF Calodium hepaticum (BANCROFT, 1893) MORAVEC, 1982 EGGS IN FECES OF DOGS AND CATS IN LAGES, SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL |
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OCCURRENCE OF Calodium hepaticum (BANCROFT, 1893) MORAVEC, 1982 EGGS IN FECES OF DOGS AND CATS IN LAGES, SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL |
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OCCURRENCE OF Calodium hepaticum (BANCROFT, 1893) MORAVEC, 1982 EGGS IN FECES OF DOGS AND CATS IN LAGES, SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL |
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OCCURRENCE OF Calodium hepaticum (BANCROFT, 1893) MORAVEC, 1982 EGGS IN FECES OF DOGS AND CATS IN LAGES, SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL |
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OCCURRENCE OF Calodium hepaticum (BANCROFT, 1893) MORAVEC, 1982 EGGS IN FECES OF DOGS AND CATS IN LAGES, SANTA CATARINA, BRAZIL |
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occurrence of calodium hepaticum (bancroft, 1893) moravec, 1982 eggs in feces of dogs and cats in lages, santa catarina, brazil |
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