Toxoplasmosis en ejemplar de zorro cangrejero (Cerdocyon thous): diagnóstico y manejo de un caso clínico en el Parque Temático Hacienda Nápoles.

Abstract

Abstract Toxoplasmosis is a zoonotic disease of global importance that affects both domestic animals and warm-blooded wild animals. Below, we describe the clinical case presented in a specimen of crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous) belonging to the collection of the Parque Temático Hacienda Nápoles that presents with clinical signs such as lethargy, loss of appetite, fever, weight loss, ataxia, weakness in hind limbs. and a slight nasal discharge, the signs being compatible with said parasitic disease, which later, using the specific test for the protozoan PCR for Toxoplasma gondii, gave a positive result. The specimen had a history of partial caudectomy months ago, it was living in an enclosure with 2 specimens of the same species and adjacent to the enclosure of a pair of pumas (Puma concolor) and a tayra (Eira barbara).