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Helminths of white-bellied opossum from Brazil
M da G Quintão e Silva1, H M Costa
1Instituto de Ciências Agrárias e Medicina Veterinária, UNIFENAS-Rodovia MG, Alfenas, Brasil. gloriaqs@mono.icb.ufmg.br
Journal of Wildlife Diseases
|May 8, 1999
Abstract:
Helminths were collected from 22 specimens of the white-bellied opossum (Didelphis albiventris) captured in the region of Pampulha (Belo Horizonte, Brazil), from May 1985 to March 1995. Ten species of helminths were collected; these included Rhopalias coronatus, Brachylaema migrans, Aspidodera raillieti, Cruzia tentaculata, Turgida turgida, Gongylonema sp., Viannaia hamata, Travassostrongylus orloffi, Trichuris didelphis and Capillaria sp.