Helminths of the guinea pig, Cavia porcellus (Linnaeus), in Brazil

Pinto, Roberto Magalhães; Gomes, Delir Corrêa; Muniz-Pereira, Luís C.; Noronha, Dely

doi:10.1590/S0101-81752002000500020

Abstract

Worm burdens were evaluated and compared in two groups of the guinea pig, Cavia poreellus (Linnaeus, 1758): animals of the first group were conventionally maintained in an institutional animal house and those of the second group were openly kept in pet shops in Brazil. Animals from both sources were infected only with the nematode Paraspidodera uncinata (Rudolphi, 1819) Travassos, 1914 (10% of prevalence in guinea pigs from lhe institutional facility and 40% in those animals from the pet shop). Other helminth samples recovered from Brazilian guinea pigs during 52 years and that are deposited in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (CHIOC) were also analyzed. Paraspidodera uncinata and the cestode Monoecocestus parcitesticulatus Rêgo, 1960 were identified in these samples.

Helminths; Paraspidodera uncinata; Monoecocestus parcitesticulatus; Cavia poreellus; guinea pig; Brazil

Helminths of the guinea pig, Cavia porcellus (Linnaeus), in Brazil

Roberto Magalhães Pinto^I,II,III; Delir Corrêa Gomes^I,II; Luís C. Muniz-Pereira^I; Dely Noronha^I

^ILaboratório de Helmintos Parasitos de Vertebrados, Departamento de Helmintologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz. Avenida Brasil 4365, 21045-900 Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

^IICNPq research fellow

^IIICorresponding author. E-mail: rmpinto@ioc.fiocruz.br

ABSTRACT

Worm burdens were evaluated and compared in two groups of the guinea pig, Cavia poreellus (Linnaeus, 1758): animals of the first group were conventionally maintained in an institutional animal house and those of the second group were openly kept in pet shops in Brazil. Animals from both sources were infected only with the nematode Paraspidodera uncinata (Rudolphi, 1819) Travassos, 1914 (10% of prevalence in guinea pigs from lhe institutional facility and 40% in those animals from the pet shop). Other helminth samples recovered from Brazilian guinea pigs during 52 years and that are deposited in the Helminthological Collection of the Oswaldo Cruz Institute (CHIOC) were also analyzed. Paraspidodera uncinata and the cestode Monoecocestus parcitesticulatus Rêgo, 1960 were identified in these samples.

Key Words: Helminths, Paraspidodera uncinata, Monoecocestus parcitesticulatus, Cavia poreellus, guinea pig, Brazil

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. To the institution which supplied the guinea pigs, to the Setor de Multimeios, Fiocruz and to Heloísa Maria Nogueira Diniz from the Laboratório de Imagens, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, for technical assistance regarding figures.

Received in 11.I.2002; accepted in 01.VII.2002.

ANDERSON, R.C. 1958, Méthod pour l'examen des nématodes en vue apicale. Ann. Par., Paris, 33: 171-172.
APA. 1989. Código de Ética Experimental com Animais. Rio de Janeiro, Sozed, 8p.
BETKEP.; S. NICKEL & A, WILHELM .1982. Untersuchungen zu Paraspidodera uncinata (Nematoda, Heterakidae), einem Blinddarmparasitenvon Cavia porcellus. Angew. Parasitol., Berlin, 23: 197-202
BEVERIDGE,1994, Family Anoplocephalidae Cholodkovsky,1902, p. 315-366. In: L.F, KHALIL; A. JONES & R.A. BRAY (Eds). Keys to the Cestode Parasites of Vertebrates. Oxon, CAB International, XIII+751 p.
BONDY, R. 1966. Contribution to the knowledge of the exogenic phase of the nematode Paraspidodera uncinata (Rudolphi, 1819). Helminthologia, Kosice, 7: 21-27.
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HERLICH, H. 1959. Anthelmintic trials against Paraspidodera uncinata the cecal worm of the guinea pig, with observations on the length of the nematodes. Jour. Parasitol., Lawrence, 45/46: 586.
HERLICH, H. & CF. DIXON. 1965. Growth and development of Paraspidodera uncinata, the cecal worm of the guinea pig. Jour. Parasitol., Lawrence, 51: 300.
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MCCARTHY, J. & T.A. MOORE. 2000. Emerging helminth zoonoses. Int. Jour. Parasitol., Oxford, 30: 1351-1360.
PEREIRA, C & Z. VAZ. 1933. Nota sobre a presença de Paraspidodera uncinata, em cobayas de São Paulo. Rev. Biol. Hyg., São Paulo, 2: 52-55.
PINTO, R.M.; J.J. VICENTE; D. NORONHA; L. GONÇALVES & D.C GOMES. 1994. Helminth parasites of conventionally maintained laboratory mice. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 89: 33-40.
PINTO, R.M.; L. GONÇALVES; D.C GOMES & D. NORONHA. 2001a. Helminth fauna of the golden hamster Mesocricetus auratus in Brazil. Contemp. Top. Lab. Anim. Sci., Illinois, 40: 20-25.
PINTO, R.M.; L. GONÇALVES; D. NORONHA & D.C GOMES. 2001b. Worm burdens in outbred and inbred laboratory rats with morphometric data on Syphacia muris (Yamaguti, 1935) Yamaguti, 1941 (Nematoda, Oxyuroidea). Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 96: 133-136.
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PORTER, D.A. & G.F. OTTO. 1934. The guinea-pig nematode, Paraspidodera uncinata. Jour, Parasitol., Lawrence, 20: 323.
RÊGO, A.A. 1960. Nota prévia sobre uma nova espécie do gênero Monoecocestus Beddard, 1914 (Cestoda, Cyclophyllidea). Atas Soc. Biol. Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, 5: 67-68.
_____. 1961. Revisão do gênero Monoecocestus Beddard, 1914 (Cestoda, Anoplocephalidae. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 59: 325-354.
ROBERTSON, L.D.; P.J. IRWIN; A.J. LYMBERY & R.C.A. THOMPSON. 2000. The role ofcompanion animals in the emergence of parasitic zoonoses. Int. Jour. Parasitol., Oxford, 30: 1369-1377.
RUDOLPHI, C.A. 1819. Entozoorum Synopsis cui Accedunt Mantissa Duplex et Indices Locupretissimi. Berolini, X+811 p.
SCHNEIDER, A.F. 1866. Monographie der Nematoden. Berlin, XIII+357p.
TRAVASSOS, L. 1913. Sobre as especies brazileiras da subfamilia Heterakinae Railliet & Henry. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 5: 271-318.
_____. 1914. Contribuição para o conhecimento da fauna helmintolojica brazileira. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 6: 137-142.
_____. 1965. Contribuição para o inventário crítico da Zoologia no Brasil. Fauna helmintológica: considerações preliminares - cestódeos. Publ. Avuls Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 50: 1-84.
VICENTE, J. J.; H.O. RODRIGUES; D.C. GOMES & R.M. PINTO. 1997. Nematóides do Brasil. Parte V: Nematóides de Mamíferos. Revta bras. Zool., Curitiba, 14 (Supl. 1): 1-452.
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[27] _____. 1914. Contribuição para o conhecimento da fauna helmintolojica brazileira. Mem. Inst. Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, 6: 137-142.

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