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Co-infection with filarial nematodes in Sapajus macrocephalus and Cebus albifrons (Primates: Cebidae) from the Peruvian Amazon

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2018

D.F. Conga ,
P. Mayor ,
A.P. Furtado ,
E.G. Giese  and
J.N. Santos
D.F. Conga*
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Biologia Celular e Helmintologia ‘Profa. Dra. Reinalda Marisa Lanfredi’, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Rua Augusto Correa 01, Guamá, Belém, Pará 66075-110, Brazil
P. Mayor
Affiliation:
Departament de Sanitat i d'Anatomia Animals, Facultat de Veterinària, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici V, E-08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona, Spain
A.P. Furtado
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Biologia Celular e Helmintologia ‘Profa. Dra. Reinalda Marisa Lanfredi’, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Rua Augusto Correa 01, Guamá, Belém, Pará 66075-110, Brazil
E.G. Giese
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Biologia Celular e Helmintologia ‘Profa. Dra. Reinalda Marisa Lanfredi’, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Rua Augusto Correa 01, Guamá, Belém, Pará 66075-110, Brazil Laboratório de Histologia e Embriologia Animal, Instituto de Saúde e Produção Animal na Amazônia, Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia (UFRA), Av. Perimetral, 2501, Montese, Pará 66077-901, Brazil
J.N. Santos
Affiliation:
Laboratório de Biologia Celular e Helmintologia ‘Profa. Dra. Reinalda Marisa Lanfredi’, Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA), Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Rua Augusto Correa 01, Guamá, Belém, Pará 66075-110, Brazil
*
Author for correspondence: D.F. Conga, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Dipetalonema caudispina (Molin, 1858) and D. gracile (Rudolphi, 1809) (Filarioidea: Onchocercidae) are two of six known species of filarial nematodes that parasitize Neotropical non-human primates. Adult filariae were collected from the thoracic and abdominal cavities of 38 of 44 specimens of Sapajus macrocephalus (Spix, 1823) and nine of ten specimens of Cebus albifrons (Humboldt, 1812) (Primates: Cebidae), distributed in the Yavarí-Mirín river basin and used locally for human consumption. Co-occurrence of D. caudispina and D. gracile is reported for the first time, with a prevalence of 18.5% (10 of 54 hosts examined). Our finding of D. caudispina and D. gracile in cebids from the Peruvian Amazon constitutes a new geographical record for both filariae, two new host records for D. caudispina, and the first report of D. gracile in S. macrocephalus. In addition, we provide morphometric data for D. caudispina, complementing the original description, as well as scanning electron microscopy details on the structure of the area rugosa and number of caudal papillae in males.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 93 , Issue 3 , May 2019 , pp. 375 - 378
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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