Helminth fauna of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes LINNE 1758) in south Sachsen-Anhalt--1: Cestodes
Pfeiffer, F.; Kuschfeldt, S.; Stoye, M.
Deutsche Tierärztliche Wochenschrift 104(10): 445-448
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0341-6593 PMID: 9445786 Document Number: 478930
Between January 1993 and November 1994 a total of 1300 red foxes from the administrative districts of Halle and Dessau in Saxony-Anhalt, eastern Germany were examined for the presence of Echinococcus multilocularis and other cestodes. E. multilocularis infections were detected in only 4 of the foxes (0.3%). The following cestodes were also found: Mesocestoides spp. (54.1%), Taenia crassiceps (17.7%), T. polyacantha (11.9%), Hydatigera taeniaeformis [Taenia taeniaeformis] (0.2%), T. serialis (0.15%), T. pisiformis (0.15%), unidentified taeniids (9.2%), Dipylidium caninum (0.2%) and Hymenolepis spp. (0.08%).