Redescrição de Litomosoides brasiliensis Almeida, 1936 (Nematoda: Filariidae) Parasito de Anoura caudifera (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)

Mourão, Elizabeth D; Avilla, Leonardo dos Santos; Lent, Herman

doi:10.1590/s0074-02762002000400007

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“…The molecular analysis on the blood samples showed there was 99.31% similarity to L. brasiliensis. This species has been reported parasitizing the families Phyllostomidae and Vespertilionidae, which are widely distributed in South and Central (Albuquerque et al, 2015;Brant & Gardner, 2000;Costa et al, 2021;Guerrero et al, 2002;Jiménez et al, 2021;Mourão et al, 2002;Vicente et al, 1997;Vogeler et al, 2018). In Brazil, presence of L. brasiliensis has been reported in the states of Amapá, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Pará, Piauí, Paraná, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo (Albuquerque et al, 2015;Costa et al, 2021;Mourão et al, 2002).…”

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Litomosoides brasiliensis (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) infecting chiropterans in the Legal Amazon region, Brazil

Costa

Coutinho

Simas

et al. 2022

Rev. Bras. Parasitol. Vet.

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Chiropterans play an important role in the maintenance of the environmental balance, since they are pollinators, seed dispersers and predators. They contribute to transmission and spreading of microorganisms such as helminths, fungi, protozoa, bacteria and virus. The aim of the present study was to investigate natural filariid infection among bats in the Legal Amazon region, Brazil, by means of parasitological and molecular analyses. Blood samples were collected from 82 bats for blood smears and for DNA extraction via the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay. Microfilariae were observed in blood smears from Carollia perspicillata (2), Artibeus lituratus (1), Artibeus fimbriatus (2), Dermanura gnoma (2) and Glossophaga soricina (1). Five positive samples were detected through the PCR assay and four of these were also positive in blood smears. From genome sequencing and comparative analysis with sequences deposited in GenBank, one sample showed 99.31% similarity to the species Litomosoides brasiliensis. The present study expands the geographical distribution of L. brasiliensis, to include the state of Maranhão as an area of occurrence of this species and includes D. gnoma and A. fimbriatus as hosts in Brazil.

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Litomosoides brasiliensis (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) infecting chiropterans in the Legal Amazon region, Brazil

Costa

Coutinho

Simas

et al. 2022

Rev. Bras. Parasitol. Vet.

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“…In the category of parasites and/or associations, which had third place in number of studies, we observed the dominance of studies focusing on ectoparasites. There are few studies focusing on endoparasites (Lainson & Naiff 2000, Mourão et al 2002, Noronha et al 2002. The same is observed for associations with fungi, with only seven studies (Mok et al 1982, Peçanha Martins et al 2000, Cordeiro et al 2012, Taylor et al 2012, Cavallini Sanches et al 2013, Zórtea et al 2015, Brilhante et al 2016).…”

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The scientific literature on bats (chiroptera) in Brazil: a scientometric analysis from 1954 – 2018

Luciano

Elias

Zocche

et al. 2022

An. Acad. Bras. Ciênc.

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Globally, bats are of interest in many studies, beyond their ecological or epidemiological relevance or even the ecomorphological diversity of species. In Brazil, most of the indexed studies on chiropterans date from 1954, with a slow and heterogeneous progress in the publication increasing. The aim of this study was to analyze the literature on bats in Brazil, identifying patterns, tendencies and knowledge gaps in the Brazilian federal states. We carried out a sistematyzed search on the online databases Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (WoS), Scientifi c Electronic Library Online (SciELO), PubMed and Scopus. We used the descriptive terms "Chiroptera" and "Brazil".Besides these bases, we included data from the manuscripts published in Chiroptera Neotropical. We obtained a total of 1,115 articles, which were analyzed and classifi ed in 22 thematic categories based on the articles' approach. We observed that each Brazilian region and state had particularities in their knowledge panoramas of bats, not being possible to generalize conditions for each federal region. Even though the increasing in the number of articles by categories, we encourage that every approach keep being developded, once no thematic could had been considered enough explored till the moment.

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“…Bain et al (1989),Mourão et al (2002), andOviedo et al (2016). Morphometric measurements of the specimens were recorded in micrometers except for the total length, given in millimeters.…”

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Cerebral filariasis infection with Litomosoides in Molossus barnesi (Chiroptera: Molossidae) in the Brazilian eastern Amazon, with comments on Molossinema wimsatti Georgi, Georgi, Jiang and Fronguillo, 1987

Conga,

Araújo,

Souza

et al. 2024

Parasitol Res

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During the health evaluation of 30 specimens of bats captured in periurban forest areas in the city of Belém-Pará, Brazil, a case of cerebral lariasis was observed. In the histopathological examination, adult lariae were found in the meningeal membranes in the brain tissue of Molossus barnesi (Molossidae) and classi ed morphologically as Litomosoides by the shape of the spicules -left spicule with a handle longer than the blade; right spicule curved, with a sclerotized heel supporting a dorsal notch; the area rugosa constituted by a ventral band of small longitudinal crests; tail rounded in males; long esophagus with a slightly glandular distal portion, and a muscular bent vagina. All the specimens lack a stoma (buccal capsule). We compared our larioids with the description and of specimens of Molossinema wimsatti. Morphological characters from M. wimsatti resemble the genus Litomosoides. Thus, we believe that M. wimsatti is a synonym of L. molossi Esslinger, 1973, and larioid specimens from material reported by Lichtenfels et al. (1981) and from de Souto et al. ( 2021) most probably correspond to Litomosoides. We suggest that the reduction of the buccal capsule could be attributable to the ectopic location. No evidence of tissue responses by the host were observed. This is the rst record of Litomosoides infecting brain tissue of Molossus barnesi from Brazil, representing a new host record. More specimens of bats should be examined in order to nd larioids in the brain and verify its taxonomic position using molecular techniques.

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Redescrição de Litomosoides brasiliensis Almeida, 1936 (Nematoda: Filariidae) Parasito de Anoura caudifera (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae)

Cited by 6 publications

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Litomosoides brasiliensis (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) infecting chiropterans in the Legal Amazon region, Brazil

Litomosoides brasiliensis (Nematoda: Onchocercidae) infecting chiropterans in the Legal Amazon region, Brazil

The scientific literature on bats (chiroptera) in Brazil: a scientometric analysis from 1954 – 2018

Cerebral filariasis infection with Litomosoides in Molossus barnesi (Chiroptera: Molossidae) in the Brazilian eastern Amazon, with comments on Molossinema wimsatti Georgi, Georgi, Jiang and Fronguillo, 1987

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