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| ALBUQUERQUE,Natália Brandão de; MOREY,Germán Augusto Murrieta; MORAIS,Aprigio Mota; MALTA,José Celso de Oliveira. |
| ABSTRACT Austrodiplostomum compactum is a digenetic trematode whith metacercariae that occur in the eyes of a wide variety of fish species. In Brazil, A. compactum metacercariae have been reported in many fish species, but there are only a few studies in the Amazon region. Due to the lack of information in the Amazon, the aim of this study was to report the occurrence of A. compactum metacercariae in the eyes of 15 specimens of Plagioscion squamosissimus from the Lake Catalão, in Amazonas, Brazil. Fishes were collected using gill nets placed randomly in the lake, euthanized in a field laboratory, and had their eyes dissected and examined under a stereomicroscope. A total of 801 metacercariae were registered infecting the eyes of the hosts with a parasitic... |
| Tipo: Info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Palavras-chave: Corvina fish; Digenea; Parasites; Infection. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0044-59672017000200141 |
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