Feline leishmaniosis caused by Leishmania infantum is a zoonotic, vector-borne disease. While dogs are the main reservoir and exhibit immune-response–dependent spectra of illness, cats most often show lymphadenomegaly, dermatologic lesions, ocular or oral disease, weakness, weight loss, and clinicopathologic changes such as non-regenerative anemia, hyperglobulinemia, and proteinuria. Diagnosis benefits from combining serology...

Leishmania infantum infection has recently been identified in non-human primates in Spain, including clinically affected individuals from critically endangered species such as the Bornean orangutan ( Pongo pygmaeus pygmaeus ). Despite these emerging cases, clinicopathological data on leishmaniosis in captive wildlife remain limited. Here, we report the first confirmed case of clinical visceral leishmaniosis in a zoo-captive wh...

Ferrets are susceptible to infections with Leishmania infantum , Toxoplasma gondii , and Dirofilaria immitis ; however, epidemiological data on these infections are limited in Europe. A total of 448 serum samples from household ferrets were collected between December 2019 and December 2023 in Spain. In this study, we assessed the seroprevalence of L. infantum and D. immitis using an in-house enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (...

Daily maximum, TX, and minimum, TN, temperatures recorded at Fabra Observatory, for the period 1914–2020 (from June to September), have permitted to identify the daytime and night time heatwaves, HWs, at the Barcelona Metropolitan Region, BMR, along 107 years. Four heatwaves indices have been computed both for maximum and minimum temperatures: the number of events per season, HWN; their maximum duration, HWD; their frequency o...

The presence of zoonotic Hysterothylacium larvae in fish from Spanish Atlantic and Mediterranean waters, which can cause economic losses for commercial fisheries, has been reported in several studies; however, little is known about species identity in this region. The aim of this study was to identify at species level the Hysterothylacium morphotypes detected in three commonly consumed fish: horse mackerel ( Trachurus trachuru...

European vipers are ambush predators with sporadic feeding events, thereby maintaining the digestive tract empty for long periods. According to previous studies relating lizards’ dietary habits and their helminth faunas, we predict poor gastrointestinal helminth communities in vipers. To test this hypothesis, we have examined the digestive tract of 86 specimens of Vipera aspis (L., 1758) and V. latastei Boscá, 1878, from sever...