状爬行动物作为虫感染的潜在来源,当伴侣动物捕食时
Mariaelisa Carbonara1, Jairo Alfonso Mendoza-Roldan1, Riccardo Paolo Lia1
1Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Bari, Valenzano, Bari, Italy.
Parasites & vectors
|July 14, 2023
概括
与物生活的爬行动物可以携带虫,对伴侣动物和人类构成健康风险. 这项研究发现31%的爬行动物被感染,这突显了与爬行动物共享息地的物对寄生虫监测的需要.
科学领域:
- 兽医寄生虫学 兽医寄生虫学
- 类学 类学 类学
- 公共卫生 公共卫生
背景情况:
- 与伴侣动物共存的状爬行动物可以充当虫感染的水库.
- 户外狗和猫的捕食是这些寄生虫的主要传播途径.
研究的目的:
- 评估同类爬行动物的作用,即作为热带传播的虫的中间或寄生宿主.
- 在意大利南部的各种生态环境中的爬行动物中识别虫物种.
- 评估爬行动物物种,感染状况和生态环境之间的相关性.
主要方法:
- 研究了来自不同息地 (家庭,狗收容所,城市,郊区,农村,自然公园) 的245种人同类爬行动物.
- 形态和分子识别的内寄生虫,包括寄生虫囊和自由虫.
- 进行统计分析以确定爬行动物,感染和生态环境之间的关联.
主要成果:
- 31%的爬行动物至少有一种虫物种.
- 最常受到感染的爬行动物物种是Podarcis siculus (18.7%) 和Tarentola mauritanica (8.1%).
- 确定的主要虫包括Joyeuxiella echinorhyncoides (19.7%),Diplopylidium acanthotetra (10.5%),Mesocestoides lineatus (5.6%) 和Physaloptera sp. 这三种虫. 这是3.9%的增长.
- 检测到Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus是一次; cestode感染与P. siculus和T. mauritanica有关.
结论:
- 爬行动物有各种各样的虫,其中许多是动物感染或感染伴侣动物.
- 这些虫在与物共享环境的爬行动物中的存在表明了潜在的健康风险.
- 需要进一步研究与爬行动物共存的狗和猫的食用传播寄生虫.
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