| hookworms of feral cats in florida. | thirty feral cats (felis catus) from alachua county (northern florida) and 30 from palm beach county (southern florida) were examined for hookworms. two species, ancylostoma tubaeforme and ancylostoma braziliense, were identified. forty-five cats (75%) were infected with a. tubaeforme, with a mean intensity of 48 hookworms per cat. twenty cats (33%) were infected with a. braziliense, with a mean intensity of 28 worms per cat. the prevalence of a. tubaeforme was greater than that of a. braziliens ... | 2003 | 12860064 |
| prevalence of ancylostoma braziliense in cats in three northern counties of florida, united states. | a convenience sampling of fecal specimens from 40 cats in northern florida was examined for the presence of ancylostoma braziliense eggs by using centrifugal sugar flotation and polymerase chain reaction (pcr)-restriction fragment length polymorphism (rflp). of the 40 samples, 26 (65%) contained hookworm eggs. dna from 24 samples was successfully amplified using pcr; using rflp, 10 samples were identified as containing dna of a. braziliense (41.7% of the 24 samples that successfully amplified). ... | 2012 | 22393896 |