Detection of Crenosoma spp., Angiostrongylus vasorum and Aelurostrongylus abstrusus in Gastropods in Eastern Austria

Canine and feline cardiorespiratory parasites are of utmost relevance in veterinary medicine. Key epizootiological information on major pet metastrongyloids, i.e., and infecting dogs, and and infecting cats, is missing from Austria. This study investigated their occurrence in 1320 gastropods collect...

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Published in:Pathogens (Basel) 2020-12, Vol.9 (12), p.1046
Main Authors: Fuehrer, Hans-Peter, Morelli, Simone, Bleicher, Julian, Brauchart, Thomas, Edler, Mirjam, Eisschiel, Nicole, Hering, Tatjana, Lercher, Sigrun, Mohab, Karoline, Reinelt, Simon, Stessl, Theresa, Fasching, Doris, Nimphy, Ricarda, Pelzl, Anja, Shahi-Barogh, Bita, Wortha, Licha Natalia, Bakran-Lebl, Karin, Duda, Michael, Sattmann, Helmut, Schaper, Roland, Traversa, Donato, Joachim, Anja
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Language:English
Subjects:
Aelurostrongylus abstrusus
Angiostrongylus vasorum
Arion vulgaris
Austria
Crenosoma
Deoxyribonucleic acid
DNA
DNA polymerase
Dogs
Gastropoda
Health risks
Infections
Investigations
Larvae
Mollusks
Nematodes
Neostriatum
Parasites
PCR
Pulmonary arteries
Sequence analysis
Slugs
Veterinary medicine
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Summary:Canine and feline cardiorespiratory parasites are of utmost relevance in veterinary medicine. Key epizootiological information on major pet metastrongyloids, i.e., and infecting dogs, and and 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., in one slug ( ) (0.07%), in five slugs (one and four ) (0.4%), in two (0.17%), and the hedgehog lungworm was detected in one . The present study confirms the enzooticity of major cardiorespiratory nematodes in Austria and that canine and feline populations are at risk of infection.
ISSN:2076-0817
2076-0817
DOI:10.3390/pathogens9121046