Affiliation:
1. Centro Universitário da Fundação de Ensino Octávio Bastos, Brazil
2. Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil
3. Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Abstract
A study of blood parasites in small wild non-flying mammals was undertaken in three areas of the Atlantic Forest in Southeastern Brazil: Serra de Itatiaia, RJ, Serra da Bocaina, SP and Serra da Fartura, SP, from June 1999 to May 2001. A total of 450 animals (15 species) were captured in traps and it was observed in 15.5% of the blood smears the presence of Haemobartonella sp. and Babesia sp. in red blood cells. There was no statistically significant difference between parasited and non-parasited specimens regarding total plasma protein, packed cell volume and body weight, which strongly suggests that these specimens might be parasite reservoirs.
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences
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