title: Parasitic helminths of the digestive system of wild boars bred in captivity.
abstract: This study aimed to identify the parasites that inhabit the digestive system of Sus scrofa scrofa from a commercial breeding facility in southern Brazil, and reports the first occurrence of Trichostrongylus colubriformis in wild boars. The gastrointestinal tracts of 40 wild boars from a commercial breeding facility were collected and individualized during slaughter in a cold-storage slaughterhouse. Out of this total, 87.5% were parasitized by the helminths Ascaris suum, Trichostrongylus colubriformis, Oesophagostomum dentatum and Trichuris suis. T. colubriformis presented a prevalence of 45%, mean intensity of 28.4 and mean abundance of 12.8. The data from this study showed that T. colubriformis not only has a capacity to develop in the small intestines of wild boars, but also adapts well to animals raised in captivity, thus representing a possible cause of economic loss in commercial wild boar farming.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Instituto de Biologia, Departamento de Microbiologia e Parasitologia, Laboratório de Parasitologia de Animais Silvestres, PelotasRS, Brasil.
authors.forename: Diego Silva
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: da Silva
authors.forename: Gertrud
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Müller
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004064:Digestive System / Q000469:parasitology*; D006376:Helminths / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D034421:Sus scrofa / Q000469:parasitology*