Investigation of in Environmental Definitive Host Feces in the Asian and the European Parts of Turkey

Overview

Journal Front Vet Sci

Specialty Veterinary Medicine

Date 2018 Apr 18

PMID 29662885

Citations 5

Authors

Ali Tumay Gurler

Francesca Gori

Cenk Soner Bolukbas

Sinasi Umur

Mustafa Acici

Peter Deplazes

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Abstract

A study was carried out to investigate the presence of in red foxes () in two regions of Turkey-central Anatolia (in Asia Minor) and Thrace (in the European part of Turkey). A total of 405 putative fox feces were collected from central Anatolia (186 specimens in 59 locations) and from Thrace (219 specimens in 114 locations). All samples were examined by the flotation and sieving method for taeniid eggs, and positive and putative samples were further analyzed by multiplex PCR. In seven samples from three locations in central Anatolia (5.1%) and in one (0.9%) from Thrace, . DNA was amplified, and this result was confirmed with another PCR specific for . In addition, s.l. was found in two (0.5%) of the samples. Although alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is known as a serious zoonosis in Turkey, this is the first field study detecting in collected fecal samples documenting the environmental contamination with eggs of this zoonotic parasite.

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