Experimental Infection of Contracaecum tipapillatum (Nematoda: Anisakinae) from Mexico in the Domestic Cat

Authors

Victor Manuel Vidal-Martinez, Centro de Investigación y Estudios Avanzados del IPNFollow
David Osorio-Sarabia, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Robin M. Overstreet, Gulf Coast Research LaboratoryFollow

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

8-1994

Comments

Published in the Journal of Parasitology (August 1994) 80(4): 576-579. Copyright 1994, the American Society of Parasitologists. Used by permission.

Abstract

Juveniles of Contracaecum multipapillatum infected the Mayan cichlid (Cichlasoma urophthalmus) and adults infected the olivaceous cormorant (Phalacrocorax olivaceus) and the great egret (Casmerodius albus) in the coastal lagoon at Celestun, State of Yucatan, Mexico. All are new host records, and, even though the geographic locality record of Mexico for the species has not been published, unidentified but presumably conspecific specimens have been reported from there. When juveniles of C. multipapillatum were fed to a kitten, but not rats, ducks, or chickens, they developed into adults. Measurements and morphological data are provided on the specimens from the kitten. Development of an avian ascaridoid in the intestine of a mammal increases the potential of this widespread species to infect other mammals, including humans.