Gastrointestinal helminths of wild hogs and their potential livestock and public health significance in Jamaica
Autor: | Jacob Lorenzo-Morales, B.S. Wilson, R. D. Robinson, C.K. Okoro |
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Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Veterinary medicine medicine.medical_specialty Jamaica 040301 veterinary sciences Gastrointestinal Diseases Swine animal diseases 030231 tropical medicine Animals Wild Biology 0403 veterinary science 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Helminths medicine Animals Domestication Globocephalus urosubulatus Swine Diseases business.industry Host (biology) Transmission (medicine) Public health 04 agricultural and veterinary sciences General Medicine Larva Animal Science and Zoology Parasitology Livestock Hyostrongylus rubidus Female Public Health Helminthiasis Animal business |
Zdroj: | Journal of helminthology. 90(2) |
ISSN: | 1475-2697 |
Popis: | An investigation into the potential for transmission of gastrointestinal helminths from wild hogs to livestock and humans was prompted by concerns of recreational wild-hog hunting in the Caribbean region and the recent practice, by livestock farmers in Jamaica, of co-rearing wild and domesticated swine. Thirty-one wild hogs from the Hellshire Hills, a dry limestone forest in southern Jamaica, were necropsied during the period June 2004 to August 2006. Thirteen of the captured animals were male and 18 female. Four species of adult helminths were recovered from the gastrointestinal tracts of the wild hogs: Hyostrongylus rubidus (77%), Globocephalus urosubulatus (48%), Oesophagostomum dentatum (42%) and Macroacanthorhynchus hirudinaceus (77%). Two (6.2%), ten (32.2%) and 18 (58.0%) hogs harboured one, two and three species of helminths, respectively. Mean infection intensities varied from 8.1 for M. hirudinaceus, to 115.5 for O. dentatum. There was no association between any of the recovered helminths and sex of the host; however, a multivariate analysis indicated a positive association between the prevalence of G. urosubulatus and host age (odds ratio (OR) = 6.517). Domesticated hogs co-reared with wild hogs are potentially at risk of infection with all four helminths, while wild-hog hunters and pig farmers may be exposed to M. hirudinaceus. |
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