Diniz L S, Costa E O, Oliveira P M
Instituto de Pesquisas e Estudos da Vida Silvestre-IPEVS, Coordenação de Programa de Medicina Veterinária, São Paulo, Brazil.
Vet Res Commun. 1995;19(5):409-15. doi: 10.1007/BF01839320.
The major health problems found in 103 captive lesser anteaters (Tamandua tetradactyla) and giant anteaters (Myrmecophaga tridactyla), family Myrmecophagidae, are presented and correlated with management. The most common of 200 recorded clinical disorders involved the digestive system (26%), nutritional deficiency (20%), injury (15.5%), respiratory system (10%), skin (7%) and circulatory system (4.5%), but 13% of the cases were inconclusive. Parasites were identified in 48.5% of faecal samples, mainly the eggs of nematodes (40%), of which the commonest were Trichuris spp (28%) and Strongyloides spp (11%); protozoa (16%), of which the commonest were Eimeria spp (10%), Entamoeba spp (5%) and Giardia spp (1%); and cestodes (8%) and acanthocephalids (1%). Bacteria cultured from the various materials included Salmonella enteritidis, S. cholerasuis, Escherichia coli, Enterobacter aerogenes, Streptococcus spp and Staphylococcus spp. The ectoparasites found were Amblyomma spp and Otodectis spp (Arthropoda, Acaridae).
本文介绍了103只圈养食蚁兽科动物小食蚁兽（Tamandua tetradactyla）和大食蚁兽（Myrmecophaga tridactyla）中发现的主要健康问题，并将其与管理情况相关联。在记录的200种临床疾病中，最常见的涉及消化系统（26%）、营养缺乏（20%）、损伤（15.5%）、呼吸系统（10%）、皮肤（7%）和循环系统（4.5%），但13%的病例诊断不明确。在48.5%的粪便样本中发现了寄生虫，主要是线虫卵（40%），其中最常见的是鞭虫属（28%）和类圆线虫属（11%）；原生动物（16%），其中最常见的是艾美球虫属（10%）、内阿米巴属（5%）和贾第虫属（1%）；以及绦虫（8%）和棘头虫（1%）。从各种材料中培养出的细菌包括肠炎沙门氏菌、猪霍乱沙门氏菌、大肠杆菌、产气肠杆菌、链球菌属和葡萄球菌属。发现的体表寄生虫是钝缘蜱属和耳螨属（节肢动物，疥螨科）。
