Abstract
Canine and feline cardiorespiratory parasites are of utmost relevance in veterinary medicine. Key epizootiological information on major pet metastrongyloids, i.e., Angiostrongylus vasorum and Crenosoma vulpis infecting dogs, and Aelurostrongylus abstrusus and Troglostrongylus brevior infecting cats, is missing from Austria. This study investigated their occurrence in 1320 gastropods collected in the Austrian provinces of Styria, Burgenland, Lower Austria, and in metropolitan Vienna. Metastrongyloid larvae were microscopically detected in 25 samples, and sequence analysis confirmed the presence of metastrongyloids in nine samples, i.e., A. vasorum in one slug (Arion vulgaris) (0.07%), C. vulpis in five slugs (one Limax maximus and four A. vulgaris) (0.4%), A. abstrusus in two A. vulgaris (0.17%), and the hedgehog lungworm Crenosoma striatum was detected in one A. vulgaris. The present study confirms the enzooticity of major cardiorespiratory nematodes in Austria and that canine and feline populations are at risk of infection.
Highlights
Cardiopulmonary metastrongyloid nematodes that affect dogs and cats are enzootic in Europe [1,2].In the last years, these parasites have stimulated the interest of the veterinary scientific community for their emergence and clinical relevance [1,3,4]
[8,16,24,27], the present cardiopulmonary nematodes and the apparent geographical extraintestinal parasitoses study investigated the occurrence of major canine and feline metastrongyloids in snails and slugs of dogs and cats due to various factors [8,16,24,27], the present study investigated the occurrence of in major canine and feline metastrongyloids in snails and slugs in Austria
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Summary
Cardiopulmonary metastrongyloid nematodes that affect dogs and cats are enzootic in Europe [1,2]. Ofof the presence and distribution cardiopulmonary in hosts both is still incipient and requires hosts scientific refinements certain European countries, such as in Austria [22]. Given the great veterinary relevance of pet expansion of extraintestinal parasitoses of dogs and cats dueexpansion to variousoffactors [8,16,24,27], the present cardiopulmonary nematodes and the apparent geographical extraintestinal parasitoses study investigated the occurrence of major canine and feline metastrongyloids in snails and slugs of dogs and cats due to various factors [8,16,24,27], the present study investigated the occurrence of in Austria.
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