Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Dog coinfected with kidney parasite and Leishmania in Brazil
By Oliveira, Valéria da Costa et al.·Published in Veterinary parasitology, regional studies and reports·2019·Instituto Nacional de Infectologia Evandro Chagas, Brazil·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: First description of parasite load and clinicopathological and anatomopathological changes in a dog naturally coinfected with Dioctophyme renale and Leishmania infantum in Brazil.
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- dog
Plain-English summary
A dog in Brazil was found to have two infections: a large roundworm called Dioctophyme renale and a parasite known as Leishmania infantum. Although the dog didn't show any obvious symptoms, tests revealed issues like low red blood cell counts and blood in the urine. A necropsy (animal autopsy) showed significant damage to the right kidney and inflammation in the abdomen. The presence of both parasites likely worsened the dog's condition, leading to severe changes in the kidney. Unfortunately, the outcome for the dog was not detailed in the study.
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Abstract
This article reports the case of a domestic dog naturally coinfected with the nematode Dioctophyme renale and with the protozoan Leishmania infantum. The dog exhibited no clinical signs but had normocytic hypochromic anemia, hyperproteinemia, hyperglobulinemia, hypoalbuminemia, and hematuria. Necropsy revealed eight D. renale specimens in the abdominal cavity and in right kidney whose parenchyma was atrophied. Histopathological analysis showed glomerular atrophy, fibrosis and a marked diffuse pyogranulomatous inflammatory infiltrate in the right kidney. Moderate multifocal granulomatous peritonitis was observed in the greater omentum. Several Dioctophyme renale eggs were present amidst the inflammatory infiltrate of the right kidney and greater omentum. Leishmania infantum parasites were detected in perirenal adipose tissue of the right kidney, greater omentum, spleen, bone marrow, and popliteal lymph node. The high D. renale load and the severe and uncommon histological alterations associated with the eggs of this parasite may have been influenced by coinfection with L. infantum.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31796167/