Controle biológico de Angiostrongylus cantonensis utilizando fungos nematófagos

• Ano de defesa: 2014
• Autor(a) principal: Paula, Alessandra Teixeira de
• Orientador(a): Araújo, Jackson Victor de
• Banca de defesa: Oliveira, Leandro Licursi de
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Viçosa
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Mestrado em Medicina Veterinária
• Departamento: Biotecnologia, diagnóstico e controle de doenças; Epidemiologia e controle de qualidade de prod. de
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Angiostrongylus cantonensis - Controle biológico; Fungos nematófagos
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: A. cantonensis - Biological control; fungi nematophagous
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS AGRARIAS::MEDICINA VETERINARIA
• Link de acesso: http://locus.ufv.br/handle/123456789/5187

The parasitosis, in a medical and social standpoint, presents important public health problems. In Brazil, an average of a third of population lives in areas with risk of transmission and occurrence of parasitic diseases. The lack of basic sanitation, as well as environmental factors particular of tropical climates, inequality of the socioeconomic conditions of the individuals and the lack of information are factors that favor its occurrence. The colonization process, establishment of new routes of trade and human migration, contributed to the introduction of pathogens transported by their hosts to other regions. This way, various species found out of their origin area. The parasite Angiostrongylus cantonensis and the exotic snail Achatina fulica are two examples of organisms that were introduced in Brazil. A.fulica is one of the intermediate hosts of the parasite A. cantonensis, responsible for cause in humans, disease known as eosinophilic meningoencephalitis, may lead parasitized individuals to death. In various regions of the country, was confirmed the presence of this parasite naturally occurring, as well as cases of infected humans. This way, measures of alternative control, are important to avoid its dispersion. In this context was evaluated the predatory capability of eight fungal isolates belong to the species Duddingtonia flagrans (isolated: AC001, CG768 and CG722), Monacrosporium thaumasium (isolated: NF34), M. sinense (isolated: SF53) and Arthobotrys robusta (isolated: I31), A. cladodes (isolated: CG719) and A. conoídes (isolated: I40) on first larvae stage (L1) of A. cantonensis in laboratory conditions. Were formed nine groups: eight groups treated with the different isolated and one control group (without fungi). The groups treated contained 1000 conidia of isolated fungal and 1000 L1 of A. cantonensis in Petri dish containing Agar- water 2% (AA2%). The control group contained only 1000 L1 of A. cantonensis in AA2%. Evidence of predatory activity of all fungal isolates tested could be observed at the end of seven days of the experiment through the recovery of ixnon-predated L1, where were observed the following percentage of reduction of L1 with the respective isolates: AC001 (82,8%); CG768 (71,0%); CG722 (72,8%); NF34 (86,7%), SF53 (89,7%); I40 (48,3%), CG719 (84,7%) and I31 (80,4%). No difference was observed (p>0,01) between the action of the isolated used in the end of seven days, however, was observed difference (p<0,01) compared with the control group. The results observed demonstrated that the fungi belonged to the genus Duddingtonia (AC001, CG768 and CG722), Monacrosporium (NF34 and SF53) and Arthrobotrys (I31 and CG719), could be used in biological control, once that these were capable of reduce the population of larvae (L1) of A. cantonensis in vitro.