What is the role of Swiss domestic cats in environmental contamination with Echinococcus multilocularis eggs?

ABSTRACT:

Background

The role of the domestic cat as definitive host for Echinococcus multilocularis and thus in environmental contamination with eggs has not yet been entirely resolved. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of E. multilocularis and other gastrointestinal parasites in Swiss domestic cats and to compare the diagnostic sensitivity of different methods for the detection of intestinal taeniid infection.

Methods

Faecal samples from 146 cats were included in the study. Faecal samples only were available from 55 cats; for the other 91 cats, necropsy was performed in addition to faecal sample testing. All (n = 146) faecal samples were analysed by a combined sedimentation/flotation technique (44% ZnCl₂) and by the sodium acetate-acetic acid-formalin (SAF) sedime

SUBMITTER: Furtado Jost R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10561489 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature