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Gastrointestinal helminths of wild hogs and their potential livestock and public health significance in Jamaica

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 January 2015

C.K. Okoro ,
B.S. Wilson ,
J. Lorenzo-Morales  and
R.D. Robinson
C.K. Okoro
Affiliation:
Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
B.S. Wilson
Affiliation:
Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
J. Lorenzo-Morales
Affiliation:
University Institute of Tropical Diseases and Public Health of the Canary Islands, University of La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
R.D. Robinson*
Affiliation:
Department of Life Sciences, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
*
*E-mail: ralph.robinson@uwimona.edu.jm
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Abstract

An investigation into the potential for transmission of gastrointestinal helminths from wild hogs to livestock and humans was prompted by concerns of recreational wild-hog hunting in the Caribbean region and the recent practice, by livestock farmers in Jamaica, of co-rearing wild and domesticated swine. Thirty-one wild hogs from the Hellshire Hills, a dry limestone forest in southern Jamaica, were necropsied during the period June 2004 to August 2006. Thirteen of the captured animals were male and 18 female. Four species of adult helminths were recovered from the gastrointestinal tracts of the wild hogs: Hyostrongylus rubidus (77%), Globocephalus urosubulatus (48%), Oesophagostomum dentatum (42%) and Macroacanthorhynchus hirudinaceus (77%). Two (6.2%), ten (32.2%) and 18 (58.0%) hogs harboured one, two and three species of helminths, respectively. Mean infection intensities varied from 8.1 for M. hirudinaceus, to 115.5 for O. dentatum. There was no association between any of the recovered helminths and sex of the host; however, a multivariate analysis indicated a positive association between the prevalence of G. urosubulatus and host age (odds ratio (OR) = 6.517). Domesticated hogs co-reared with wild hogs are potentially at risk of infection with all four helminths, while wild-hog hunters and pig farmers may be exposed to M. hirudinaceus.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 90 , Issue 2 , March 2016 , pp. 139 - 143
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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