“…Nutrias have been reported as reservoirs or carriers of a variety of pathogens and parasites
in many countries, such as Fasciola hepatica , Strongyloids
myopotami , Toxoplasma gondii , Coccidia, Leptospira
spp ., Giardia spp., encephalomyocarditis, Chlamydia
psittaci and Francisella tularensis [2, 5, 6, 11, 15, 17, 23]. However, Capillaria hepatica infection in nutrias is
relatively very rare, and its histopathological characteristics have not been reported in
detail [15, 16,
19].…”