HELMINTHS OF SMALL MAMMALS IN AN ATLANTIC FOREST BIOLOGICAL STATION IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL

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  • Rosana Gentile Laboratório de Biologia e Parasitologia de Mamíferos Silvestres Reservatórios, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9160-1204
  • Sócrates Fraga da Costa-Neto Campus Fiocruz Mata Atlântica, Av. Sampaio Corrêa s/n, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, 22713-560, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. Programa de Pós-Doutorado Júnior, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Brasília, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2813-525X
  • Thiago dos Santos Cardoso Laboratório de Biologia e Parasitologia de Mamíferos Silvestres Reservatórios, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil.Programa de Pós-Doutorado Nota 10 – 2021, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2724-6038
  • Raquel Gonzalez Boullosa Laboratório de Biologia e Parasitologia de Mamíferos Silvestres Reservatórios, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. Programa de Pós-Graduação em Biodiversidade e Saúde, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil, 4365, 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7560-4277
  • Carla Elizabeth Macabu Laboratório de Biologia e Parasitologia de Mamíferos Silvestres Reservatórios, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2109-0933
  • Raquel de Oliveira Simões Departamento de Parasitologia Animal, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro, km 07, BR-465, 23890- 000, Seropédica, RJ, Brasil https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5130-3341
  • Arnaldo Maldonado Jr Laboratório de Biologia e Parasitologia de Mamíferos Silvestres Reservatórios, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Brasil 4365, 21040-360, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brasil. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4067-8660

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24039/rnh20221621451

Keywords:

Marsupials, prevalence, rodents, synanthropic animals, urbanization, wild animals

Abstract

Interface areas between urban and sylvatic environments increase the contact between humans and wild animals, and may favour the transmission of zoonoses. The aim of this study was to describe the helminth fauna of a small mammal community in an urban-sylvatic interface area of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest. Twenty helminth species were recovered in six species of small mammals. Parasite sharing was observed in two helminth species among the marsupials. This study is the first report of a helminth infection for the marsupial Monodelphis americana (Müller, 1776). This is the first report of the nematodes Aspidodera raillieti Travassos, 1913, Viannaia hamata Travassos, 1914 and Trichuris sp. parasitizing the marsupial Marmosa paraguayana (Tate, 1931). None of the helminth species found has been reported to infect humans.

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2022-11-04

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Gentile, R., Fraga da Costa-Neto, S., dos Santos Cardoso, T., Gonzalez Boullosa, R., Macabu, C. E., de Oliveira Simões, R., & Maldonado Jr, A. (2022). HELMINTHS OF SMALL MAMMALS IN AN ATLANTIC FOREST BIOLOGICAL STATION IN RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL. Neotropical Helminthology, 16(2), 161–172. https://doi.org/10.24039/rnh20221621451

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