Gastrointestinal parasites in marsupials from Atlantic Forest of Northeastern Brazil

Abstract

Marsupials have been recognized as animals of great ecological and sanitary relevance due to their role as disseminators of seeds and the involvement in the life cycle of several pathogens of zoonotic concern (Bezerra-Santos et al., 2021). Over the last decades, the contact between these animals and humans has been intensified because of the loss of natural habitat, which may imply in a negative impact for both animal and human species (Cooper et al., 2018). Currently, Brazil encompasses a high diversity of marsupials with at least 62 recognized species (Faria et al., 2019), being many of them directly affected by anthropic actions