Área de Parasitología, Departamento de Agroquímica y Medio Ambiente, Universidad Miguel Hernández de Elche, Ctra. Valencia Km 8.7, 03550 San Juan, Alicante, Spain.
Vet Parasitol. 2011 Jun 30;179(1-3):175-9. doi: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.01.058. Epub 2011 Feb 2.
The Iberian lynx is the most endangered felid in the world. Enteropathogens may threaten its survival, and therefore we analysed faecal samples from 66 different individuals (37 males and 29 females), the largest population representation studied to date. The samples were obtained from November 2005 to October 2008 in the two areas where the Iberian lynx survives: Sierra Morena and Doñana (Andalusia, southern Spain). A total of 56.1% samples were parasitized with at least 6 species of helminths, including two cestodes (Hymenolepis spp. and Taenia spp.) and four Nematodes (Ancylostoma spp., Toxocara spp., Toxascaris leonina, and Capillaria sp.). In this work, the presence of Hymenolepis is reported for the first time in Lynx pardinus. The relevance of our findings is discussed focussed on the conservation of this endangered felid.
伊比利亚猞猁是世界上最濒危的猫科动物。肠道病原体可能威胁到它们的生存，因此我们分析了来自 66 个不同个体（37 只雄性和 29 只雌性）的粪便样本，这是迄今为止研究过的最大的种群代表。这些样本是在 2005 年 11 月至 2008 年 10 月期间在伊比利亚猞猁生存的两个地区：塞拉莫雷纳和多尼亚纳（西班牙南部的安达卢西亚）获得的。共有 56.1%的样本至少被 6 种寄生虫寄生，包括两种绦虫（Hymenolepis spp.和 Taenia spp.）和四种线虫（Ancylostoma spp.、Toxocara spp.、Toxascaris leonina 和 Capillaria sp.）。在这项工作中，首次在 Lynx pardinus 中报告了 Hymenolepis 的存在。讨论了我们的发现对保护这种濒危猫科动物的重要性。
