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Cerebral nasitremiasis in a Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris) stranded in the Canary Islands
Felipe-Jiménez, I.; Fernández, A.; de Quirós, Y.B.; Arregui-Gil, M.; Puig-Lozano, R.; Arbelo, M.; Sierra, E. (2023). Cerebral nasitremiasis in a Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris) stranded in the Canary Islands. Research in Veterinary Science 158: 56-64. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rvsc.2023.03.009
In: Research in Veterinary Science. Elsevier SCI Ltd: Oxford. ISSN 0034-5288; e-ISSN 1532-2661
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Mesoplodon densirostris (de Blainville, 1817) [WoRMS]; Nasitrema Ozaki, 1935 [WoRMS]
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Blainville's beaked whale; Mesoplodon densirostris; brain; cetacean; Nasitrema sp.; pyogranulomatous encephalitis |
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- Felipe-Jiménez, I.
- Fernández, A.
- de Quirós, Y.B.
- Arregui-Gil, M.
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- Puig-Lozano, R.
- Arbelo, M.
- Sierra, E.
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| Abstract |
Ten species within the genus Nasitrema (subfamily Nasitrematinae, family Brachycladiidae) have been reported infecting a wide variety of odontocetes worldwide, although there is still a lack of information about their presence in beaked whales (BWs). Nasitrema spp. are commonly described inhabiting the pterygoid sinus, the tympanic cavities, and the middle and inner ear; although aberrant migrations through the brain have been also reported. This trematode may cause different type of lesions, ranging from mild to severe saculitis, neuritis, otitis, and/or meningoencephalitis that may impede cetaceans to survive in the wild, resulting in incoordination, loss of equilibrium, and echolocation dysfunction ending in a stranding event. The presence of Nasitrema sp. was found in an adult female Blainville beaked whale stranded death in Fuerteventura, Canary Islands, on November 2016. The most relevant gross finding was a severe chronic-active multifocal pyogranulomatous and necrotizing encephalitis. Histologically, multiple areas of necrosis, pyogranulomatous and eosinophilic inflammation, haemorrhages and occasional cholesterol crystals were found associated with parasitic structures compatible with an adult trematode and its eggs. Molecular analysis, based on a quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) of the brain tissue sample detected 99% homology with a partial sequence of the NADH dehydrogenase subunit 3 (ND3) gene of Nasitrema delphini. In addition, liver, kidney, prescapular lymph node and brain samples were positive to herpesvirus (conventional nested PCR). Evidence of the presence of this parasite was not found in any of the 54 beaked whales (n = 54) stranded on the Canary Islands between 1999 and 2017, specifically 35 Cuvier's BWs and 19 specimens belonging to the Mesoplodon genus. To our knowledge, the current study represents the first description of a nasitremiasis in a member of the Ziphiidae family. |
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