Publication Type: | Journal Article |
Year of Publication: | 1996 |
Authors: | Willingham, AL, Kapel, CMO, Monrad, J, Ockens, NW |
Journal: | Journal of helminthology |
Volume: | 70 |
Pagination: | 259-263 |
Date Published: | 1996 |
Keywords: | Vulpes vulpes |
Abstract: | Sixty-eight red foxes were collected from the metropolitan area of Copenhagen and examined for helminth infections. Standard faecal flotations for intestinal parasites gave the following results: Strongyle eggs (75.0%), Capillaria eggs (36.8%), Toxocara eggs (23.5%), Taenia eggs (1.5%), and coccidia oocysts (2.9%). Gastrointestinal helminths were collected from 21 of the 68 foxes with the following specimens found: Uncinaria stenocephala (85.7%), Toxocara canis (81.0%), Taenia spp. (38.1%), Mesocestoides lineatus (23.8%) and Polymorphus spp. (9.5%). Faeces of 39 foxes were examined by the Baermann method for larvae of cardiopulmonary worms with 20 foxes (51.3%) being infected. Fourteen foxes (35.9%) were infected with Angiostrongylus vasorum, 11 (28.2%) were infected with Crenosoma vulpis, and 5 foxes (12.8%) were infected with both species. Muscle digestion of diaphragms from the 68 foxes indicated that none harboured larvae of Trichinella spiralis. |
A helminthological survey of wild red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) from the metropolitan area of Copenhagen
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