Resumen

ROJAS, Andrés  y  GUERRERO, Ricardo. Capillaria sp., isolated from Desmodus rotundus (Chiroptera: Phyllostomidae) in Costa Rica. Mastozool. neotrop. [online]. 2007, vol.14, n.1, pp.101-102. ISSN 0327-9383.

During a bat sampling carried out in the provinces of Guanacaste and Alajuela, Costa Rica, eggs from a nematod species were found in two adult, female, non-pregnant bats which represent 11.76% of the studied bats. This is the first report of Capillaria sp., infecting specimens of the common vampire bat Desmodus rotundus in the provinces of Guanacaste and Alajuela, Costa Rica.

Palabras clave : Vampire bat.

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