Calodium hepaticum (Nematoda: Capillaridae) in a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in Italy with scanning electron microscopy of the eggs

Title:

Calodium hepaticum (Nematoda: Capillaridae) in a red fox (Vulpes vulpes) in Italy with scanning electron microscopy of the eggs

Creator:

Macchioni, Fabio, Chelucci, Luca, Guardone, Lisa, Mignone, Walter, Prati, Maria Cristina, and Magi, Marta

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:4b255765-b87f-4635-98d2-76a06a74463e
uuid:4b255765-b87f-4635-98d2-76a06a74463e
doi:10.14411/fp.2013.011

Subject:

Capillaridae, Calodium hepaticum, egg shell, morphology, and ultrastructure

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Description:

Calodium hepaticum (Bancroft, 1893) Moravec, 1982 (syn. Capillaria hepatica) is a cosmopolitan capillariid nematode, infecting mainly rodents and occasionally other mammals, including humans. Reports of C. hepaticum in canids are rare and the present one is, to the best of our knowledge, the first reported case in a red fox (Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus) in Italy. Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) examination of the eggs of C. hepaticum allowed a precise description of the egg morphology, which is one of the most relevant specific characteristics of capillariid nematodes. The egg shell showed a fibrous beam-like network which differs from that of the eggs of closely related trichinelloid species. This characteristic can be useful especially in case of spurious infection, when misdiagnosis among different trichinelloids species can occur.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

102-104

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 2013 Volume:60 | Number:2

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