Prevalence of gastrointestinal helminth parasites of zoonotic significance indogs and cats in lower Northern Thailand

The Journal of Veterinary Medical Science

Doaa SALMAN¹  Khamphon SANGKAEO²  Wilawan PUMIDONMING³  Shin-ichiro KAWAZU⁴  Abdelbaset E. ABDELBASET⁵  Dulyatad GRONSANG⁵  Makoto IGARASHI⁵ 

[1] Centre of Excellence in Medical Biotechnology, Facultyof Medical Science, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand;Department of Animal Medicine, Faculty of VeterinaryMedicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt;Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty ofMedical Science, Naresuan University, Phitsanulok, Thailand;Faculty of Veterinary Science, Mahidol University,Nakhon Pathom, Thailand;National Research Center for Protozoan Diseases,Obihiro University of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, 2–10 Inada-cho, Obihiro,Hokkaido 080–8555, Japan

关键词: cat;    dog;    gastrointestinal helminth;    Thailand;    zoonotic parasite;   

DOI  :  10.1292/jvms.16-0293

学科分类：兽医学

来源: Japanese Society of Veterinary Science

【 摘 要 】

Gastrointestinal zoonotic helminths of dogs and cats have a public health concernworldwide. We investigated the prevalence of gastrointestinal helminths of zoonoticsignificance in dogs and cats in lower Northern Thailand and utilized molecular tools forspecies identification of hookworms and Opisthorchis viverrini. Fecalsamples of 197 dogs and 180 cats were collected. Overall prevalence of infection usingmicroscopy was 40.1% in dogs and 33.9% in cats. Helminth infection found in both dogs andcats included hookworms, Spirometra spp., Taenia spp.,Toxocara spp., O. viverrini,Strongyloides spp. and Trichuris spp. Hookworms werethe most common helminth in dogs, while Spirometra spp. were the mostprevalent in cats. Among hookworm infection in dogs and cats, Ancylostomaceylanicum was the most prevalent hookworm, being 82.1% in hookworm infecteddogs and 95.8% in hookworm infected cats. Mixed-infection due to hookworms andSpirometra spp. was the most dominant in both dogs and cats. Ourfinding showed that zoonotic helminth infection is highly prevalent in dogs and cats inthe lower Northern area of Thailand.

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