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Acute disseminated toxoplasmosis in a captive three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus)
E Túry1, A Costa Messias, K Belák
1Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, União Pioneira de Integração Social, Faculdades Integradas, Brasilia-DF, Brazil.
Journal of Comparative Pathology
|October 2, 2001
Abstract:
Fatal toxoplasmosis was diagnosed in a captive three-toed sloth (Bradypus tridactylus), an arboreal species of the tropical rainforests of South and Central America. In view of its specialized lifestyle and ecosystem and its low metabolic rate, B. tridactylus would seem to warrant further investigation in respect of its susceptibility to Toxoplasma gondii.