First palaeoparasitological record of a dioctophymatid egg in an archaeological sample from Patagonia

Fugassa, Martín Horacio; Olivera, Elvira A. Gonzales; Petrigh, Romina Sandra

doi:10.1016/j.actatropica.2013.06.001

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“…Although the first paleoparasitological studies were focused on the description of infections in ancient humans (Ruffer, 1910;Szidat, 1944), efforts to identify helminths and protozoans in other vertebrate remains throughout the Phanerozoic eon have been noted in the literature. Reports of parasites in fossils and subfossils are uneven, and records from the Cenozoic are by far the most numerous (Araújo et al, 1981;Ferreira et al, 1989bFerreira et al, , 1991Ferreira et al, , 1992Ferreira et al, , 1993Schmidt et al, 1992;Noronha et al, 1994;Jouy-Avantin et al, 1999;Verde & Ubilla, 2002;Sardella & Fugassa, 2009;Beltrame et al, 2011Beltrame et al, , 2012Beltrame et al, , 2013Beltrame et al, , 2015aBeltrame et al, , b, 2017Beltrame et al, , 2018Beltrame et al, , 2022Fugassa et al, 2013Fugassa et al, , 2022McConnell & Zavada, 2013;Wood et al, 2013Wood et al, , 2019Taglioretti et al, 2015;Sianto et al, 2016;Nunes et al, 2017;Perri et al, 2017;Dentzien-Dias et al, 2018;Leles et al, 2018;Tietze et al, 2019Tietze et al, , 2020Souza et al, 2020;Agustín et al, 2021;Cardia et al, 2021;Oyarzún-Ruiz et al, 2021;Petrigh et al, 2021;Sivkova & Kosintsev, 2021;…”

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Paleoparasitological Contributions to the Study on Ancient Infections of Hominids and Other Vertebrates in Brazil: A Review

Carmo,

Lima,

Araújo-Júnior

et al. 2024

Paleontologia em Destaque

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Paleoparasitology is an interdisciplinary science that studies the parasitic infections in the past, using fossils and subfossils recovered from archeological and paleontological lithostratigraphic units. During the 20th and 21st centuries, it has improved the biological knowledge on helminths and protozoans, as well as provided numerous sociocultural insights into the past civilizations. Here, we present an updated review of the paleoparasitological contributions to the analyses of ancient infections in vertebrate remains recovered from different regions of Brazil. Since its emergence, the Paleoparasitology has been important to a multidisciplinary knowledge related to sociocultural aspects of the American Pre-Columbian civilizations and may provide an important ecological, evolutionary, and biogeographical understanding of parasites of vertebrates other than humans throughout the geological time. The present data compilation suggests a prominent role in the scientific community assumed by paleoparasitological approaches, since they have been contributing to a better understanding of helminth and protozoan distribution in South America, during the Phanerozoic eon and consolidating the Paleoparasitology as a global science. Keywords: Coprolite, mummy, helminth, protozoa.

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Paleoparasitological Contributions to the Study on Ancient Infections of Hominids and Other Vertebrates in Brazil: A Review

Carmo,

Lima,

Araújo-Júnior

et al. 2024

Paleontologia em Destaque

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“…Adult females can reach up to 103 cm in length, and adult males up to 45 cm (Eiras et al, 2021;Freitas Tancredi et al, 2021;Radman et al, 2017). This parasite is known to have been affected humans and animals for millennia, based on paleoparasitological studies that identified D. renale eggs in deer coprolites dated to 6,540 years (Before Present) in Argentina and human coprolites dated to approximately 3,370 years (Before the Common Era) in Switzerland (Eiras et al, 2021;Fugassa et al, 2013;Le Bailly et al, 2003).…”

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Dioctophimosis in a community dog from a public park in the city of Curitiba-PR: a case report from the perspective of One Health

Amarante,

Morikawa,

Silva

et al. 2023

Braz. J. Vet. Med.

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The present study describes from the holistic One Health perspective a case report of dioctophimosis in a community dog (defined as stray dogs managed by the local community) residing in a park in the city of Curitiba-PR, considering the multispecies collectives directly affected by the dynamics of this dangerous zoonosis. The work underlines the importance of the community dog program of the Rede de Proteção Animal, demonstrating the health barrier function of these dogs. Despite being a cosmopolitan zoonosis, dioctophimosis is of particular importance in regions of the developing world, including Latin America, because of large populations of stray animals and social inequalities. Public policies focused on raising awareness among the general population about this parasitic disease and its risks and the restraint of actions that determine risks of infection for humans and companion animals are fundamental to a One Health approach to prevent this zoonosis.

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“…Some studies have been carried out on samples from open-air burial (Fugassa et al, 2006;Fugassa and Dubois, 2009), burial caves and middens (Fugassa and Barberena, 2006;Sardella and Fugassa, 2009b). However, most of the knowledge about Holocene parasitology from Patagonia has been produced by the analysis of coprolites found in 2 archaeological sites: Cerro Casa de Piedra, cave 5 (CCP5) and cave 7 (CCP7) (e.g., Fugassa et al, 2006Fugassa et al, , 2009Fugassa et al, , 2013Sardella and Fugassa, 2009a;Taglioretti et al, 2015). Since the frequency of zoonotic parasites in these 2 sites has been found to be high, these sites are considered as a transmission focus where parasites were spread within mammal populations and communities (Fugassa et al, 2009).…”

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Apex Predators, Rockshelters, and Zoonoses in the Patagonian Holocene

Fugassa

Petrigh

2017

Journal of Parasitology

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Carnivorous mammals are a trophic guild with an important role in the dissemination of parasite infective stages (larvae, eggs, cysts, and oocysts). In the present study, new samples of coprolites attributed to carnivorous mammals, obtained from 2 archaeological caves, were analyzed for the presence of parasites with the aim to increase the knowledge about parasites in rockshelters that could have spread to humans and other mammals. To this purpose, fragments of 3 coprolites from Cerro Casa de Piedra, cave 5 and cave 7, were examined. Coprolites were rehydrated in aqueous trisodium phosphate and processed by spontaneous sedimentation. High parasite richness was observed and new parasite species for archaeological contexts were found. The parasitological findings in Puma concolor coprolites associated with caves suggest the importance of these carnivores in the dissemination of parasites in areas with high re-use of space and steady conditions of temperature, humidity, and radiation.

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First palaeoparasitological record of a dioctophymatid egg in an archaeological sample from Patagonia

Cited by 12 publications

References 21 publications

Paleoparasitological Contributions to the Study on Ancient Infections of Hominids and Other Vertebrates in Brazil: A Review

Paleoparasitological Contributions to the Study on Ancient Infections of Hominids and Other Vertebrates in Brazil: A Review

Dioctophimosis in a community dog from a public park in the city of Curitiba-PR: a case report from the perspective of One Health

Apex Predators, Rockshelters, and Zoonoses in the Patagonian Holocene

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