| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 1998 |
| Authors: | H. Lassnig, Prosl, H., Hinterdorfer, F. |
| Journal: | Wiener Tierarztliche Monatsschrift |
| Volume: | 85 |
| Issue: | 4 |
| Pagination: | 116 - 122 |
| Date Published: | 1998 |
| Keywords: | Austria, cat, Cestoda, domestic, Echinococcus, echinococcus multilocularis, ectoparasite, Endoparasites, fox, Germany, infections, multilocularis, Prevalence, South, spiralis, Styria, Toxocara, Trichinella, tubingen, Vulpes, west |
| Abstract: | Between September 1993 and May 1994 the parasite fauna of Styrian foxes was studied in a total amount of 516 specimens sent to the Federal Institute for Veterinary Investigations at Graz in connection with a project called "Monitoring Fuchsbandwurm". The following ectoparasites could be found: three tick species: Ixodes hexagonus (3.2 %), I. persulcatus (1.4 %, firstly recorded in Styria), I. canisuga (0.5 %), two mite species: Sarcoptes canis (13.8 %) and Otodectes cynotis (17.4 %), the louse fly Melophagus ovinus (0.5 %) and eight flee-species: Pulex irritans (0.5 %), Ctenocephalides felis(l.4 %), Archaeopsylla erinacei (3.7 %), Chaetopsylla globiceps (9.2 %), Chaetopsylla t. trichosa (7.3 %), Paraceras melis (1.4 %), Tarsopsylla o. octodecimdentata (0.5 %), and Ceratophyllus gallinae (0.5 %). The following helminths were detected: Mesocestoides sp. (15.8 %), Taenia crassiceps (14.6 %), T. polyacantha (6.8 %), T. pisiformis (0.2 %), Taenia sp. (17.4 %), Echinococcus multilocularis (3.6 %); Trichuris vulpis (0.2%), Capillaria aerophila (43.9 %), C. plica (35.6 %), Trichinella spiralis s.l. (1.2 %), Uncinaria stenocephata (43.0 %), Crenosoma vulpis (24.9 %), Ollulanus tricuspis (2.1 %), Toxocara canis (46.8 %)? Toxascaris leonina (0.6 %), non differentiated ascarids (3.2 %). The examination of rectum faeces by means of flotation showed the following results. coccidian oocysts (8.6 %) and eggs of different helminths: Taeniidae (5.4 %),Capillaria aerophila (49.7 %), Uncinaria stenocephala (22.2 %), Toxocara canis (26.5 %), Toxascaris leonina (0.2 %), and Ascaris suum (1.0 %). |