Helminths of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in Denmark

Helminth parasites of the red foxVulpes vulpes(L., 1758) and the wolfCanis lupus italicusAltobello, 1921 in Emilia-Romagna, Italy

“…The mean intensity recovered was the highest among tapeworms (91.7; Table I), as already reported by other authors (e.g. Segovia et al 2004;Saeed et al 2006;Magi et al 2009Magi et al , 2016. Curiously, another fox had several tetrathyridia encysted in the hepatic parenchyma, mainly under the gallbladder; no mature tapeworms were recovered in the small intestine.…”

“…Only one fox was found infected with A. caninum (Ercolani, 1859) (P = 1.8%) ( Table I). This is in agreement with several other European studies, where a low level of prevalence for this parasite was observed (Pétavy & Deblock 1980 Segovia et al 2004: 0.5% of 399 foxes; Széll et al 2004: 1% of 100 foxes; Saeed et al 2006: 0.6% of 1040 foxes). Regarding other strongylid nematodes, we recovered unidentified trichostrongylids in two foxes from Bologna province (Table I).…”

“…Prey availability and geographical setting may influence the parasitic fauna of these animals. Moreover, red foxes are potential reservoir of zoonotic helminth species as several authors have demonstrated in Europe (Loos-Frank & Zeyhle 1982;Richards et al 1995;Papadopoulos et al 1997;Segovia et al 2004;Vervaeke et al 2005;Letková et al 2006;Saeed et al 2006;Sikó Barabási et al 2010;Bružinskaitė-Schmidhalter et al 2012), including Italy (Guberti & Poglayen 1991;Capelli et al 2003;Di Cerbo et al 2008;Macchioni et al 2012). The aim of this study was to analyse the gastro-intestinal and hepatic helminthic fauna of red foxes from Emilia-Romagna, northern Italy.…”

Detection of Angiostrongylus vasorum in Red Foxes (Vulpes vulpes) from Brandenburg, Germany

“…This nematode was one of 4 new helminth species found in Dutch foxes in the last 35 years (Franssen et al 2014). The occurrence of helminth infections in red foxes from Denmark has been well studied, showing prevalences of A. vasorum of 48.6 % (n = 1040) in Northern Zealand, an endemic area within Denmark (Saeed et al 2006). A recent study showed that A. vasorum is abundant in foxes (n = 70) from the Copenhagen area with a prevalence of 80 %, but not in foxes (n = 48) from Southern Jutland (Al-Sabi et al 2014).…”

“…Distribution is characterised by isolated endemic foci surrounded by regions with no or only sporadic occurrence (Bolt et al 1994). Foci exist in France, Denmark, Cornwall, Wales and the south-east of England (Bolt et al 1994;Willingham et al 1996;Saeed et al 2006;Morgan et al 2005;Morgan et al 2008). Expansion is, however, occurring from these foci into regions that were formerly not endemic, as seen in Great Britain, where new cases have evolved in dogs from Scotland (Helm et al 2009) and northern England (Yamakawa et al 2009) as well as in foxes from Scotland (Philbey and Delgado 2013).…”