CUTANEOUS CANDIDIASIS IN A CEBUS APELLA (CAPUCHINS MONKEYS)

Authors

  • Marlete Brum Cleff Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL), Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
  • Mauro Pereira Soares Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL), Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
  • Isabel Martins Madrid Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL), Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
  • Ana Raquel Mano Meinerz Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
  • Melissa Orzechowski Xavier Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL), Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
  • Ana Paula Neuschrank Albano Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL), Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
  • Anelise Oliveira Fonseca Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL), Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
  • Erica Silveira Veterinária Autônoma, Rio Grande, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil
  • Mário Carlos Araújo Meireles Universidade Federal de Pelotas (UFPEL), Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil

Abstract

Candida spp has been frequently isolated from domestic and sylvan animals, however, Candidiasis has not been reported in primates. One Cebus apella, with progressive thinning and ulcerative skin lesions and mucous, was necropsied. Fragments of tissue were collected and processed for histology. Coloration of H.E. and Groccot was made. For mycology was collected tissue, exsudate, and skin crusts. Direct exam was made, and samples cultivated at 37oC in agar Sabouraud with cloranfenicol and agar corn. Macroscopically the animal presented; itself extremely thin with ulcerative lesions on the skin, ranging from 1 to 4 cm. Histologically, on dermis ulcerations, there was mononuclear infiltrate and fibroblastic proliferation. With Groccot, it was observed intralesionally hyphae and blastoconidia. The direct exam showed round and/or ovalate gram positive cells, compatible with yeast. The cultives showed shining colonies with a smooth surface, some of them with edges fringed and white-yellowish coloration. The colonies showed yeast cells with ovalate or alongate forms and sprouting unipolar on microscopy. With microcultive, it was found globosous blastoconidia, with wall thick and pseudohyfaes abundant and ramified. There was the formation of a germinative tube, confirming the C. albicans species. This study shows the risk of candidiasis in wildlife primates living on captivity.

 

KEY WORDS: Candidiasis, Candida albicans, Cebus apella, skin.

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Published

2008-10-15

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CLEFF, Marlete Brum; SOARES, Mauro Pereira; MADRID, Isabel Martins; MEINERZ, Ana Raquel Mano; XAVIER, Melissa Orzechowski; ALBANO, Ana Paula Neuschrank; FONSECA, Anelise Oliveira; SILVEIRA, Erica; MEIRELES, Mário Carlos Araújo. CUTANEOUS CANDIDIASIS IN A CEBUS APELLA (CAPUCHINS MONKEYS). Brazilian Animal Science/ Ciência Animal Brasileira, Goiânia, v. 9, n. 3, p. 791–795, 2008. Disponível em: https://revistas.ufg.br/vet/article/view/713. Acesso em: 5 dec. 2025.

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Vol. 9 No. 3 (2008)

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Veterinary Medicine

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