Severe Verminous Pneumonia Caused by Natural Mixed Infection with Aelurostrongylus abstrusus and Angiostrongylus chabaudi in a European Wildcat from Western Balkan Area

Aims Aelurostrongylus abstrusus (Railliet, 1898) and Angiostrongylus chabaudi (Biocca, 1957) are important cardiopulmonary metastrongyloids in felids. This case report describes, for the first time, a natural and patent mixed infection caused by A. abstrusus and A. chabaudi in a European wildcat ( F...

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Published in:Acta parasitologica 2019-06, Vol.64 (2), p.411-417
Main Authors: Stevanović, Oliver, Diakou, Anastasia, Morelli, Simone, Paraš, Smiljana, Trbojević, Igor, Nedić, Drago, Sladojević, Željko, Kasagić, Dragan, Di Cesare, Angela
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aelurostrongylus abstrusus
Angiostrongylus
Animal Systematics/Taxonomy/Biogeography
Animals
Balkan Peninsula
Biomedical and Life Sciences
Biomedicine
Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bronchopneumonia
Bronchopneumonia - diagnosis
Bronchopneumonia - parasitology
Bronchopneumonia - veterinary
Case Report
Coinfection - parasitology
Ecology
Epizootiology
Fatal Outcome
Feces - parasitology
Felis - parasitology
Female
Infections
Intestinal parasites
Lung - parasitology
Lung - pathology
Male
Medical Microbiology
Metastrongyloidea - anatomy & histology
Microbiology
Mixed infection
Nematodes
Parasitism
Parasitology
Strongylida Infections - diagnosis
Strongylida Infections - veterinary
Wildlife
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Summary:Aims Aelurostrongylus abstrusus (Railliet, 1898) and Angiostrongylus chabaudi (Biocca, 1957) are important cardiopulmonary metastrongyloids in felids. This case report describes, for the first time, a natural and patent mixed infection caused by A. abstrusus and A. chabaudi in a European wildcat ( Felis silvestris silvestris ) from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Most important, this is a rare report of fatal parasitism in wildlife, involving a severe verminous bronchopneumonia and gastrointestinal nematode and cestode infection with Toxocara cati , Taenia taeniaeformis , Aonchotheca putorii, and Ancylostoma spp. Results Emphasis is set to detailed description of granulomatous, interstitial verminous bronchopneumonia, morphological description of A. abstrusus and A. chabaudi, and molecular confirmation of diagnosis by triplex PCR. Conclusion The data provided in this study contribute to the knowledge on the epizootiology and pathological effect of these neglected metastrongyloids in European wildcat.
ISSN:1230-2821
1896-1851
DOI:10.2478/s11686-019-00029-9