| [importance of the wild boar in the epidemiology of wild trichinellosis in piedmont and liguria]. | muscle samples from 1,508 wild boars (sus scrofa) harvested in piedmont and liguria between 1987 and 1990 were examined for larvae of trichinella sp. by trichinelloscopy and peptic digestion. no wild boar was infected, though trichinellosis was present in foxes (vulpes vulpes) from the same areas (14 positives out of 608) with the highest prevalence in the mountain range (25.0%). infection was also not found in 40 stone martens, 5 badgers and 3 stoats. five vulpine isolates were identified as be ... | 1990 | 2132444 |
| eucoleus boehmi infection in red fox (vulpes vulpes) from italy. | in the last decade an increase of the number of red foxes in anthropized habitats across european countries, including italy, has been observed. this pones implications in terms of disease transmission between wildlife and domestic animals; in fact, there are evidences of the role of foxes as reservoirs and amplifiers of a broad spectrum of parasites infecting pets. the present study evaluated the prevalence of eucoleus boehmi, an emerging extra-intestinal nematodes of the capillariinae subfamil ... | 2014 | 25458564 |