Spirocerciasis is a parasitic, chronic, silent and fatal disease caused by Spirocerca lupi, which affects canids, and exceptionally felids. The objective of this report is to record the occurrence of spirocerciasis in dogs/canids reported in Brazil, from 2010 to 2021. The bibliographic research indicated the record of 24 cases in Brazil, with 50% of the cases being recorded in the Southeast region, 42% in the Midwest and 8% in the Northeast. The low number of cases may be associated with the insidious characteristic of the disease, the presence of nonspecific clinical signs, the ability to cause sudden death in the definitive host, due to rupture of an aortic aneurysm, and the difficulty of diagnosis in coproparasitological examination.
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