title: Helminth infections in faecal samples of wolves Canis lupus L. from the western Beskidy Mountains in southern Poland.
abstract: Eighty-nine samples of grey wolf (Canis lupus L.) faeces were collected between 2002 and 2004 from two areas in the western Beskidy Mts (south Poland). Helminth eggs were observed in 56.2% of faeces examined. These included: Alaria alata (2.2%), taeniid eggs (11.2%), Toxocara canis (5.6%), Toxascaris leonina (1.1%), Eucoleus aerophilus (14.6%), Ancylostoma caninum (12.3%), Uncinaria stenocephala (37%) and unidentified roundworm eggs of the family Strongyloididae (1.1%). Eucoleus aerophilus is recorded for the first time from Poland. The results are compared with the helminth fauna of other wolf populations in Europe.
authors.affiliation: Department of Zoology and Ecology, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Kozuchowska 5b, 51-631, Wrocław, Poland. popiolek@ozi.ar.wroc.pl
authors.forename: Marcin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Popiołek
authors.forename: Justyna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Szczesnaa
authors.forename: Sabina
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nowaka
authors.forename: Robert W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Mysłajeka
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002589:Cestoda / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D004197:Disease Reservoirs; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D006373:Helminthiasis / Q000453:epidemiology*; D009348:Nematoda / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D011044:Poland / Q000453:epidemiology; D016008:Statistical Distributions; D014200:Trematoda / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D019596:Wolves / Q000469:parasitology*