Postmortem findings in non-human primates from Pernambuco, Brazil

• Autor(a) principal: Dias, Rômulo Freitas Francelino
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Outros Autores: Gonçalves, Saulo Romero Felix, Barretto, Mariana Lumack do Monte, Albuquerque, Pedro Paulo Feitosa de, Silva Junior, Valdemiro Amaro da, Barros, Mércia Rodrigues, Oliveira, Jaqueline Bianque, Leal, Silvana Gomes, Oliveira, Andrea Alice da Fonseca
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Research, Society and Development
• Texto Completo: https://rsdjournal.org/index.php/rsd/article/view/27276
• topic: Primatas neotropicais; Epizootia; Anatomopatológico; Causa de morte.; Primatas neotropicais; Epizootia; Anatomopatológico; Causa de muerte.; Neotropical primates; Epizootic; Anatomopathological; Cause of death.

This study analyzed necropsy reports and photographic records of non-human primates from the Pathology Division of the Department of Veterinary Medicine at the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), Brazil. Pathological data of 60 non-human primates (NHP) necropsied between January 2017 and December 2018 were analyzed based on the following criteria: city and zone (urban, peri-urban, and rural), origin (free-living and captivity), history and suspected clinical diagnosis, sex, species, age, corpse’s conservation status, and macroscopic anatomopathological findings. The anatomopathological findings of viable necropsied animals (53.33%) were statistically analyzed for absolute and relative values. The primary causes of death were trauma injury (42%), parasitism (5%), pneumonia (3%), and fetal dystocia (3%).  Trauma, possibly caused by anthropization, was the most prevalent cause of the primates' death. This conclusion presents an important differential diagnosis in primate death evolution during the epizootic period.