New data on straggled eyeworm Oxyspirura chabaudi (Baruš, 1965) (Nematoda, Thelaziidae) in Europe

Abstract

Three male specimens of the eyeworm, Oxyspirura chabaudi, were found during the post mortem examination of one individual of Turdus merula L. (Passeriformes). This is the first record of Turdus merula as a host for O. chabaudi.

Medical Parasitology Taxonomy Update, January 2018 to May 2020

“…Oxyspirura is a large genus of parasitic nematodes. Most species in the genus are ocular parasites of birds, but two species have been reported from nonhuman primates (29,30). In 2020, Oxyspirura (Spirurida: Thelaziidae) was reported as a cause of pruritic cutaneous larval migrans (CLM) in a patient from Vietnam.…”

Subulura mackoi n. sp. (Nematoda: Subuluridae) and the zoogeography of subulurids parasitizing birds

“…Subulura leprincei from C. europaeus was reported in the northern zone in Belorussia (Merkusheva & Bobkova, 1981), and in the southern zone in Georgia (Kurashvili 1957), Armenia (Akhumyan, 1966), Turkmenistan (Meredov, 1976 and Spain (Cordero del Campillo et al, 1977). A single record of S. brumpti from Sturnus vulgaris was reported from Poland (Gundlach, 1965;Okulewicz, 1997). S. sisoworonki was reported from C. garrulus in Azerbaijan (Sadychov, 1970), Turkmenistan (Meredov et al, 1970) and Ukraine (Ivanickyi, 1940).…”

“…As a result of domestication and the breeding of fowl, the geographic distribution of S. brumpti is cosmopolitan. Subulura brumpti was found in Passeriformes (Sturnus vulgaris L.) in the temperate zone in Poland only and reported under the name ... (Gundlach, 1965;Okulewicz, 1997 Baruš (1996) as "species inquirenda". Subulura differens was described by Sonsino (1890) from domestic fowl (Gallus gallus f. domestica) in Italy, and is widespread, according to Sonin and Baruš (1996), in domestic fowl and free-living gallinaceous birds (Alectoris, Perdix, Coturnix, Francolinus, Numida) in the southern (subtropical) belt of Barreto (1919) considered that Gendre (1909) was dealing with several species from this wide variety of hosts and suggested that the samples from E. afer might be S. recurvata described by Linstow (1901) from the same host in Africa (Lake Nyassa).…”

Pruritic Cutaneous Nematodiasis Caused by Avian Eyeworm Oxyspirura Larvae, Vietnam

“…Eighty-four species are listed in the genus Oxyspirura (9). Most are avian eyeworms, and only 2 species were isolated from primates: O. conjunctivalis from a lemur and O. youngi from Patas monkeys (6).…”