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1 March 2017 TREATMENT OF PULMONICOLA COCHLEOTREMA INFECTION WITH IVERMECTIN-PRAZIQUANTEL COMBINATION IN AN ANTILLEAN MANATEE (TRICHECHUS MANATUS MANATUS)
João Carlos Gomes Borges, Larissa Molinari Jung, Sebastião Silva dos Santos, Vitor Luz Carvalho, Rafael Antonio Nascimento Ramos, Leucio Câmara Alves
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Abstract

The aim of this study was to report the use of an oral combination of ivermectin plus praziquantel in the treatment of a Pulmonicola cochleotrema in an Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus manatus). A female manatee was found exhibiting respiratory changes and the presence of parasites in the nares. Based on clinical manifestations presented by the manatee, a symptomatic therapeutic protocol was employed, which included an anthelmintic treatment using a combination of ivermectin plus praziquantel. The parasites retrieved were identified as P. cochleotrema. The fourth day after the onset of the therapeutic protocol, the clinical signs declined and on the seventh day posttreatment no clinical signs were observed. This is the first time a therapeutic protocol of ivermectin plus praziquantel has been used in the treatment of P. cochleotrema in manatees.

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João Carlos Gomes Borges, Larissa Molinari Jung, Sebastião Silva dos Santos, Vitor Luz Carvalho, Rafael Antonio Nascimento Ramos, and Leucio Câmara Alves "TREATMENT OF PULMONICOLA COCHLEOTREMA INFECTION WITH IVERMECTIN-PRAZIQUANTEL COMBINATION IN AN ANTILLEAN MANATEE (TRICHECHUS MANATUS MANATUS)," Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 48(1), 217-219, (1 March 2017). https://doi.org/10.1638/2016-0149.1
Received: 5 August 2016; Published: 1 March 2017
KEYWORDS
aquatic mammals
clinical signs
conservation
Helminthes
trematode
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