Haematological parameters in a free-ranging population of Didelphis virginiana from Mexico

Abstract: The American opossum Didelphis virginiana is the marsupial species with the largest geographic distribution in North America, a very important natural host and key to the maintenance and transmission of many zoonotic pathogenic microorganisms of importance in public health, and one of the...

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Autores principales:	Zepeda-Espinosa,Joice Y., Alonzo-Salomón,Ligia G., Reyes-Novelo,Enrique A., Ruiz-Piña,Hugo A.
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Universidad Austral de Chile. Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias 2019
Materias:	synanthropic Didelphis virginiana haematology Mexico opossum Yucatan
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0719-813220190003001252019-09-25Haematological parameters in a free-ranging population of Didelphis virginiana from MexicoZepeda-Espinosa,Joice Y.Alonzo-Salomón,Ligia G.Reyes-Novelo,Enrique A.Ruiz-Piña,Hugo A. synanthropic Didelphis virginiana haematology Mexico opossum Yucatan Abstract: The American opossum Didelphis virginiana is the marsupial species with the largest geographic distribution in North America, a very important natural host and key to the maintenance and transmission of many zoonotic pathogenic microorganisms of importance in public health, and one of the wild mammals with the greatest adaptation to the human environment, but despite all that very little is known about some physiological aspects in their free-ranging populations. In the present study, basic haematological parameters of 201 opossums from a synanthropic population of D. virginiana in a rural locality of the state of Yucatan, are first described. The average values of haemoglobin, packed cell volume, red blood cells, and eosinophils were higher in males and adults (except eosinophils) than in females and juveniles, respectively, and juvenile opossums had higher values of lymphocytes, neutrophils, and platelets than males. Non-pregnant females had significantly higher values of mean corpuscular volume, lymphocytes and platelets than pregnant ones, while red blood cell count and segmented neutrophils showed higher values in pregnant females. The establishment of the basic haematological parameters for free-ranging populations of D. virginiana is a very useful reference for both the health monitoring of the populations and further studying the host-parasite relationship of some zoonotic pathogens present in the Yucatan Peninsula.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessUniversidad Austral de Chile. Facultad de Ciencias VeterinariasAustral journal of veterinary sciences v.51 n.3 20192019-01-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0719-81322019000300125en10.4067/S0719-81322019000300125
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language	English
topic	synanthropic Didelphis virginiana haematology Mexico opossum Yucatan
spellingShingle	synanthropic Didelphis virginiana haematology Mexico opossum Yucatan Zepeda-Espinosa,Joice Y. Alonzo-Salomón,Ligia G. Reyes-Novelo,Enrique A. Ruiz-Piña,Hugo A. Haematological parameters in a free-ranging population of Didelphis virginiana from Mexico
description	Abstract: The American opossum Didelphis virginiana is the marsupial species with the largest geographic distribution in North America, a very important natural host and key to the maintenance and transmission of many zoonotic pathogenic microorganisms of importance in public health, and one of the wild mammals with the greatest adaptation to the human environment, but despite all that very little is known about some physiological aspects in their free-ranging populations. In the present study, basic haematological parameters of 201 opossums from a synanthropic population of D. virginiana in a rural locality of the state of Yucatan, are first described. The average values of haemoglobin, packed cell volume, red blood cells, and eosinophils were higher in males and adults (except eosinophils) than in females and juveniles, respectively, and juvenile opossums had higher values of lymphocytes, neutrophils, and platelets than males. Non-pregnant females had significantly higher values of mean corpuscular volume, lymphocytes and platelets than pregnant ones, while red blood cell count and segmented neutrophils showed higher values in pregnant females. The establishment of the basic haematological parameters for free-ranging populations of D. virginiana is a very useful reference for both the health monitoring of the populations and further studying the host-parasite relationship of some zoonotic pathogens present in the Yucatan Peninsula.
author	Zepeda-Espinosa,Joice Y. Alonzo-Salomón,Ligia G. Reyes-Novelo,Enrique A. Ruiz-Piña,Hugo A.
author_facet	Zepeda-Espinosa,Joice Y. Alonzo-Salomón,Ligia G. Reyes-Novelo,Enrique A. Ruiz-Piña,Hugo A.
author_sort	Zepeda-Espinosa,Joice Y.
title	Haematological parameters in a free-ranging population of Didelphis virginiana from Mexico
title_short	Haematological parameters in a free-ranging population of Didelphis virginiana from Mexico
title_full	Haematological parameters in a free-ranging population of Didelphis virginiana from Mexico
title_fullStr	Haematological parameters in a free-ranging population of Didelphis virginiana from Mexico
title_full_unstemmed	Haematological parameters in a free-ranging population of Didelphis virginiana from Mexico
title_sort	haematological parameters in a free-ranging population of didelphis virginiana from mexico
publisher	Universidad Austral de Chile. Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias
publishDate	2019
url	http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0719-81322019000300125
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Haematological parameters in a free-ranging population of Didelphis virginiana from Mexico

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