The incidence and possible cross trasmission of coccidia and helminthis in the mouflons and roe deer in Czecho-Slovakia

Abstract

Viscera obtained from 52 mouflons, Ovis ammon musimon, and 33 roe deer, Capreolus capreolus, from 1963 to 1974 were examined for the presence of endoparasites. The animals used in the study were of both sexes and various ages, and were collected from the Carst and Grandiorite regions near Brno. In the viscera of mouflons, five species of coccidia, one species of tremadote, two species of lungworm and 15 species of gastro-intestinal nematode were found. In roe deer, four coccidal species, one species of cestode, two of lungworm and 15 species of nematode of the digestive tract were isolated. Eimeria superba, E. pondera, E capreoli, E. panda and Cooperia pectinata are reported for the first time in roe deer in Czechoslovakia. Neostronglupus lineairs, Ostertagia ostertagi, Cooperia oncophora, C. bisonis, C. curticei, C. pectinata and Oesphagostomum, columbianium are reported in the mouflon, also for the first time there. Eight species of nematode of the digestive tract were found in both game species.