Natural Infection of the Wild Canid Lycalopex gymnocercus by the Protozoan Rangelia vitalii, the Agent of Canine Rangeliosis

Rosiléia Marinho de Quadros; João Fábio Soares; Juliane Scharlau Xavier; Celso Pilati; Jocelim Lotário da Costa; Bruno Alonso Miotto; Luiz Claudio Miletti; Marcelo B Labruna

doi:10.7589/2014-08-194

Natural Infection of the Wild Canid Lycalopex gymnocercus by the Protozoan Rangelia vitalii, the Agent of Canine Rangeliosis

J Wildl Dis. 2015 Jul;51(3):787-9. doi: 10.7589/2014-08-194. Epub 2015 May 1.

Authors

Rosiléia Marinho de Quadros¹, João Fábio Soares², Juliane Scharlau Xavier¹, Celso Pilati¹, Jocelim Lotário da Costa³, Bruno Alonso Miotto², Luiz Claudio Miletti¹, Marcelo B Labruna²

Affiliations

¹ 1 Centro de Ciências Agroveterinárias, Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina, Lages, Santa Catarina, 88520-000, Brazil.
² 2 Faculdade de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, São Paulo, 05508-270, Brazil.
³ 3 Eletrosul Centrais Elétricas SA, Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, 88040-001, Brazil.

PMID: 25932667
DOI: 10.7589/2014-08-194

Abstract

Rangelia vitalii is a piroplasmid that causes canine rangeliosis, a severe hemorrhagic disease of domestic dogs in South America. We report about R. vitalii infecting a pampas fox (Lycalopex gymnocercus). The fox, which developed a fatal illness, was also infected by Hepatozoon canis and Capillaria hepatica.

Publication types

Case Reports
Letter
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Animals
Animals, Wild / parasitology
Brazil
Female
Foxes / parasitology*
Heart / parasitology
Myocardium / pathology
Piroplasmida / physiology*
Protozoan Infections, Animal / parasitology*
Protozoan Infections, Animal / pathology