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Natura Croatica : Periodicum Musei Historiae Naturalis Croatici, Vol. 17 No. 4, 2008.

Original scientific paper

Epizootiology of game cervid cysticercosis

Valéria Letková ; Department of Parasitology and Infectious Diseases, University of Veterinary Medicine, Košice, Slovak Republic
Peter Lazar ; Department of Parasitology and Infectious Diseases, University of Veterinary Medicine, Košice, Slovak Republic
Jaroslav Soroka ; Department of Parasitology and Infectious Diseases, University of Veterinary Medicine, Košice, Slovak Republic
Mária Goldová ; Department of Parasitology and Infectious Diseases, University of Veterinary Medicine, Košice, Slovak Republic
Jan Čurlík ; Department of Parasitology and Infectious Diseases, University of Veterinary Medicine, Košice, Slovak Republic

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Abstract

The protection of game from diseases is important for several reasons. Mainly, this is concerned with the health of the animals themselves, which under the conditions obtaining in the Slovak Republic are at an increasing rate exposed to negative factors arising from the activities of man. Among other factors, exposure to diseases, including these caused by parasitic infections, is increasing. In order to assess the prevalence of Taenia species in wild carnivores, which is indicative of or related to infection in cervids, 323 animals were investigated. The taenias were represented by 7 species: Taenia hydatigena (Pallas, 1766), Taenia krabbei Moniez, 1879 (syn. T. cervi Christiansen, 1931). Tetratirotaenia polyacantha (Leucart, l856), Mesocestoides litteratus, M. lineatus (Goeze, 1782), Ralliet, 1843 and Echinococcus multilocularis. The presence of T. hydatigena was established in 12 red foxes and two wolves and T. krabbei was found in one wolf and three foxes. The presence of cysticerci was investigated in 114 game ruminants post-mortem (32 red deer, 61 roe deer and 21 fallow deer). Cysticercus tenuicollis (Taeniae hydatigena) was found in 3 game species (red deer, roe deer, fallow deer) and cysticerci of T. krabbei in the myocard of red deer.

Keywords

cysticercosis; red deer; roe deer; fallow deer

Hrčak ID:

34032

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/34032

Publication date:

31.12.2008.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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