The jaguar (Panthera onca) is a species of carnivorous mammal of the family Felidae and the
only representative of the genus Panthera in the Americas, classified with conservation status
as threatened. Orphaned jaguar puppies are victims of anthropogenic factors and occasionally
adopted by riverside Amazonians during a certain period, leading to epidemiological
implications of infectious and parasitic diseases among humans, domestic and wild animals.
Infection with the trematode Platynosomum spp. it is common in regions of tropical and
subtropical climates and is considered the most relevant among the liver diseases of parasitic
origin in feline medicine, commonly described in domestic cats, but also registered in birds,
wild cats and other mammals. The present work aims to report the sequence of care, treatment
and clinical evolution of a patient of the Panthera onca species affected by gastroenteritis
diagnosed by means of clinical signs, imaging tests, cytological examination of feces by direct
method, with a large amount of bacteria with predominance of the cocci type, associated with
the parasitological diagnosis of feces with the presence of Platynosomum illiciens eggs. The
results obtained and publications raised provoke pertinent discussions about the case, and this
may be a material used for future consultations due to the scarcity of the theme in the literature
on wild felids, especially when correlated to the jaguar.
Keywords: Jaguar. Gastroenteritis. Coproparasitological. Platynosomum illiciens.
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