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

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