Morphological and molecular diagnosis of diseases of free-ranging crab-eating foxes (Cerdocyon thous)

ABSTRACT The aim of this study was to investigate the occurrence diseases in free-ranging wild canids that were roadkill on highways State Espírito Santo, Brazil. PCR tests performed for detection Brucella sp., Babesia Rangelia and Hepatozoon sp. spleen. Morphological evaluation identification parasites liver lung. Twenty specimens C. thous necropsied at Animal Pathology Sector Veterinary Hospital Universidade Federal do Santo. Tissue samples processed histopathological examination polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis. There no amplification genomic DNA sequences using extracted from spleen as template. Histologically, lesions associated with parasitism by Platynosomum Angiostrongylus observed lung, respectively. This is first report state Therefore, demonstrated crab-eating foxes Importantly, evidence infection obtained