| Issue |
Parasite
Volume 21, 2014
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|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 62 | |
| Number of page(s) | 4 | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2014062 | |
| Published online | 20 November 2014 | |
Research Article
Toxoplasmosis in a bar-shouldered dove (Geopelia humeralis) from the Zoo of Clères, France
Toxoplasmose chez une Géopélie à nuque rousse (Geopelia humeralis) du Zoo de Clères, France
1
Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Département des Jardins Botaniques et Zoologiques, 57 rue Cuvier, 75005
Paris, France
2
Laboratoire Anatomo-Pathologique Vétérinaire, BP 303, 37403
Amboise, France
3
United States Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland
20705-2350, USA
* Corresponding author: rigoulet@mnhn.fr
Received:
1
October
2014
Accepted:
4
November
2014
Toxoplasmosis causes mortality in several avian species, especially passerine birds. Toxoplasmosis was diagnosed in a bar-shouldered dove (Geopelia humeralis) found dead at the zoo of Clères (France). The bird had necrotizing pneumonia and nephritis with intralesional tachyzoites of Toxoplasma gondii. The diagnosis was confirmed by immunostaining with polyclonal rabbit T. gondii antibodies and by transmission electron microscopy. To our knowledge, the bar-shouldered dove is a new host record for T. gondii.
Résumé
La toxoplasmose est une cause de mortalité chez plusieurs espèces d’oiseaux, en particulier les passereaux. La toxoplasmose a été diagnostiquée chez une Géopélie à nuque rousse (Geopelia humeralis) retrouvée morte au zoo de Clères (France). L’oiseau avait une pneumonie nécrosante et une néphrite avec tachyzoïtes de Toxoplasma gondii intralésionnels. Le diagnostic a été confirmé par marquage immunologique avec des anticorps polyclonaux de lapin anti-T. gondii et par microscopie électronique à transmission. À notre connaissance, la Géopélie à nuque rousse est un nouvel hôte pour T. gondii.
Key words: Toxoplasma gondii / toxoplasmosis / bar-shouldered dove / Geopelia humeralis / France
© J. Rigoulet et al., published by EDP Sciences, 2014
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