Parasitic Aortitis due to Onchocerca armillata in Slaughtered Cattle in the Southeastern Region of Turkey

Özyıldız, Zafer; Yılmaz, Remzi; Özsoy, Şule Yurdagül; Özkul, İbrahim Ayhan

doi:10.9775/kvfd.2012.8456

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“…), which serve as their intermediate hosts (2). These parasites occur mostly in South Asia, in the equatorial regions of Africa and in Turkey (1,3,4). O. armillata may be found in the proximity of the aortic arch as well as in the brachiocephalic trunk, costocervical and brachial arteries, and the section of the abdominal aorta up to the iliac bifurcation (5), and also in the pericardium (6).…”

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Mast cell typing in aortic onchocerciasis and the immunohistochemicaldemonstration of Wolbachia bacteria

Yılmaz¹,

Kocak²,

Özyıldız³

et al. 2016

Turk J Vet Anim Sci

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In this study, the presence of endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria was determined by immunohistochemical methods in 8 out of 43 paraffin-embedded bovine aortic tissues that were macroscopically and microscopically diagnosed with aortic onchocerciasis in the archive of the Harran University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine's Department of Pathology. By means of the enzyme histochemical and immunohistochemical staining methods, it was ascertained that the tryptase-containing subtype of mast cells (MC T) was involved in the inflammatory response in the bovine aortae with onchocerciasis. The aim of this study was to elucidate the pathogenesis of aortic onchocerciasis lesions caused by Onchocerca armillata in Turkey and to demonstrate the presence of endosymbiotic Wolbachia bacteria in these lesions.

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