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[echinococcus vogeli cysts in paca liver (cuniculus paca) native from the acre state, brazil].	four of the patients with polycystic hydatid disease observed by us reported that they were aware of the presence of liver disease in the pacas hunted for food. the viscera of these animals were usually given to domestic dogs. all of our 7 patients reported contact with dogs that had previously ingested viscera of pacas. examination of the liver considered to be diseased by one of the patients and removed from a paca killed in the same region (state of acre, brazil) from which the human cases or ...	1990	2131493
co-infections of the cestode echinococcus vogeli and the nematode calodium hepaticum in the hystricomorphic rodent agouti paca from a forest reserve in acre, brazil.	the helminth fauna of agouti paca (linnaeus, 1766) has seldom been studied. in this paper, we report an unusual mixed infection of echinococcus vogeli rausch & bernstein, 1972 and calodium hepaticum (syn. capillaria hepatica bancroft, 1863) in free-ranging paca from a forested region in acre (brazil). gross morphological examination revealed that paca liver contained multiple spherical to subspherical white or translucent lesions, which were isolated or frequently contiguous and partially covere ...	2013	23072769