Andrei M B Febronio, Gisele S Boos, Renata L G Batista, Derek B Amorim, Juliana P Guimarães, Matheus V Bianchi, Daniela B Mariani, Letícia Koproski, Cristine Mari, Jociery E V Parente, Luciana Sonne, Max R Werneck, Sandra M T Marques, David Driemeier, Cristiane K M Kolesnikovas, Karina R Groch, Caroline Sobotyk, Guilherme G Verocai, Kátia R Groch, Josué Díaz-Delgado
The Cuvier's beaked whale (CBW; Ziphius cavirostris ) is a cosmopolitan marine mammal found in deep tropical and temperate waters of all oceans. CBW strandings have been recorded sporadically in Brazil; however, there is lack of information available regarding their causes of stranding and/or death. Herein, we report the epidemiologic, pathologic, morphologic parasitologic features and molecular identification of arterial and renal crassicaudiasis by Crassicauda sp. in three geographically and chronologically distant CBW stranded off Brazil...
December 2021: International Journal for Parasitology. Parasites and Wildlife