Open AccessZoonotic intestinal fluke diseases of foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in Ukraine
Author(s) -
P. V. Lyulin,
О. В. Федорова
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal for veterinary medicine, biotechnology and biosafety
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2411-3174
pISSN - 2411-0388
DOI - 10.36016/jvmbbs-2019-5-2-2
Subject(s) - vulpes , epizootic , biology , veterinary medicine , feces , zoology , ecology , outbreak , predation , medicine , virology
The aim of the work was to study the epizootic situation on the occurrence of intestinal fluke diseases in foxes in Eastern Ukraine. The epizootic situation regarding fox fluke diseases was studied in vivo according to the results of feces coproscopy and posthumously by a partial helminthological autopsy according to K. I. Scrjabin. In total, 213 samples of feces from foxes were collected and examined by helminthologic methods. As a result of the research, the wide spread of intestinal fluke diseases was found in foxes of Eastern Ukraine. Two trematode species, Alaria alata and Nanophyetus salmincola, were found in foxes of the forest-steppe zone. In the Eastern Ukraine, the invasion of foxes with A. alata reaches 67.13%, mean intensity — from 2 to 38 eggs per microscopic field, median intensity — 12.7 ± 1.7. The invasion of foxes with N. salmincola is insignificant: prevalence — 0.93% with mean intensity — 1–8 eggs per microscopic field (median intensity — 4.5 ± 2.5). In the forest-steppe geographical zone of Eastern Ukraine, alariasis was found in 91.24% of foxes with low, medium, and high levels of mean intensity — from 3 to 47 eggs per microscopic field (median intensity — 16.5 ±1.0). Nanophyetiasis was detected in two foxes (prevalence — 1.45%) with median intensity — 4.5 ± 2.5 eggs per microscopic field.