Universidade Federal da Paraíba - UFPB, Departamento de Engenharia e Meio Ambiente, Laboratório de Ecologia Aninal, Programa de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Monitoramento Ambiental, Rio Tinto, PB, Brasil.
Universidade Estadual Paulista "Júlio de Mesquita Filho" - UNESP, Instituto de Biociências, Setor de Parasitologia, Laboratório de Parasitologia de Animais Silvestres, Campus de Botucatu, Botucatu, SP, Brasil.
Braz J Biol. 2023 Nov 27;83:e275302. doi: 10.1590/1519-6984.275302. eCollection 2023.
In this study, we investigated the infection by pulmonary parasites in the water snake Helicops angulatus. We found four nymphs of the pentastomide parasite Sebekia oxycephala, parasitizing two adult females H. angulatus collected in the municipality of Rio Tinto, Paraíba, Brazil. This occurrence is likely due to the nymphs of this parasite directly infecting aquatic intermediate hosts, such as fish. The result of this study represents the first record of pentastomid infecting H. angulatus.
在这项研究中，我们调查了水蛇 Helicops angulatus 的肺部寄生虫感染情况。我们在巴西 Paraíba 州 Rio Tinto 市采集的两条成年雌性水蛇 H. angulatus 体内发现了四只五角科寄生虫 Sebekia oxycephala 的若虫。这种情况很可能是由于这种寄生虫的若虫直接感染了鱼类等水生中间宿主。本研究结果代表了五角科寄生虫感染 H. angulatus 的首次记录。
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