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Gastrointestinal helminths from the common warthog, Phacochoerus africanus (Gmelin) (Suidae), in KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, with comments on helminths of Suidae and Tayassuidae worldwide

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Kerstin Junker Open the ORCID record for Kerstin Junker [Opens in a new window] ,
Andrea Spickett ,
Monlee Swanepoel ,
Boris R. Krasnov Open the ORCID record for Boris R. Krasnov [Opens in a new window] ,
Joop Boomker  and
Louwrens C. Hoffman Open the ORCID record for Louwrens C. Hoffman [Opens in a new window]
Kerstin Junker*
Affiliation:
Epidemiology, Parasites and Vectors Programme, Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Private Bag X05, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa
Andrea Spickett
Affiliation:
Epidemiology, Parasites and Vectors Programme, Agricultural Research Council-Onderstepoort Veterinary Institute, Private Bag X05, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa
Monlee Swanepoel
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland, Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa
Boris R. Krasnov
Affiliation:
Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Swiss Institute for Dryland Environmental and Energy Research, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede-Boqer Campus, 84990 Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel
Joop Boomker
Affiliation:
Department of Veterinary Tropical Diseases, University of Pretoria, Private Bag X04, Onderstepoort 0110, South Africa
Louwrens C. Hoffman
Affiliation:
Department of Animal Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Private Bag X1, Matieland, Stellenbosch 7602, South Africa Centre for Nutrition and Food Sciences, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation. The University of Queensland, Health and Food Sciences Precinct, 39 Kessels Rd, Coopers Plains 4108, Australia
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Author for correspondence: Kerstin Junker, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Thirty warthogs, Phacochoerus africanus, were collected in the Pongola Game Reserve, South Africa and examined for helminths. Gastrointestinal helminth assemblages comprised Gastrodiscus aegyptiacus, the cestode genus Moniezia and seven species of nematodes. A single warthog harboured a metacestode of Taenia hydatigena in the mesenteries. No helminths were found in the heart, lungs or liver of the warthogs. Probstmayria vivipara and Murshidia spp. were the most prevalent as well as abundant helminth species, followed by Physocephalus sexalatus. The incidence of Moniezia did not differ between hosts of different sex or age. Numbers of Murshidia spp. were not affected by host sex, but were higher in adults than in juveniles. Conversely, burdens of Trichostrongylus thomasi were not affected by host age, but were higher in males than in females. While not highly significant, helminth assemblages in male warthogs were more species rich than in females. Helminth communities in the three genera of wild sub-Saharan suids are largely unique, but Ph. africanus and Hylochoerus meinertzhageni share more worm species with each other than with Potamochoerus larvatus, possibly because the former two are more closely related. Overlap between helminth communities of African wild suids and those of other suids and Tayassuidae worldwide is limited.

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Geographic distributionhelminth communitieshost rangeSuidaeTayassuidaewarthogs
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Parasitology , Volume 146 , Issue 12 , October 2019 , pp. 1541 - 1549
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