Tiškina Valentina, Lindqvist Eeva-Liisa, Blomqvist Anna-Clara, Orav Merle, Stensvold Christen Rune, Jokelainen Pikka
Institute of Veterinary Medicine and Animal Sciences, Estonian University of Life Sciences, Tartu, Estonia.
Evidensia Nekala, Evidensia, Tampere, Finland.
Vet Rec Open. 2019 Mar 17;6(1):e000314. doi: 10.1136/vetreco-2018-000314. eCollection 2019.
has spread farther north in Europe. In this study, two autochthonous findings from dogs from Finland are described: in February 2014, the infection was diagnosed in a 10-month-old labrador retriever, and in February 2017, in a three-year-old French bulldog. These diagnoses were based on direct detection of the larvae from faeces of the dogs. The dogs had no history of travel to or import from abroad; the first lived in Southern Finland and the other in Western Finland, about 150 km apart. The dogs had no clinical signs attributable to angiostrongylosis. An online questionnaire was used to survey the extent to which veterinarians in Finland have self-reportedly observed canine infections. A total of 38 veterinarians authorised to work in Finland answered the questionnaire in December 2017, and 9 (24%) of them reported having seen one or more dogs with infection in Finland. The results suggest that at least five individual dogs with infection would have been seen in Finland, three of which had an apparently autochthonous infection. While the geographical distribution of in Finland remains largely unknown, findings have started to appear from domestic dogs. It remains possible that some veterinarians could have misdiagnosed, for example, larvae as those of , and the findings without confirmation using antigen test could be due to coprophagy and passage of ingested larvae; however, this does not change the main conclusion that can be made: is already multifocally present in Finland. Increasing awareness about is important in areas where it is emerging and spreading.
在欧洲已向北传播得更远。在本研究中,描述了来自芬兰犬只的两例本地感染病例:2014年2月,在一只10个月大的拉布拉多寻回犬中诊断出感染,2017年2月,在一只3岁的法国斗牛犬中诊断出感染。这些诊断基于从犬只粪便中直接检测到幼虫。这些犬只没有前往国外或从国外进口的历史;第一只生活在芬兰南部,另一只生活在芬兰西部,相距约150公里。这些犬只没有可归因于管圆线虫病的临床症状。使用在线问卷来调查芬兰兽医据报告观察到犬类感染的程度。2017年12月,共有38名在芬兰获得授权工作的兽医回答了问卷,其中9名(24%)报告在芬兰见过一只或多只感染的犬只。结果表明,在芬兰至少会看到五只感染的个体犬只,其中三只显然是本地感染。虽然芬兰管圆线虫的地理分布在很大程度上仍然未知,但已开始在 domestic dogs中出现相关发现。仍有可能一些兽医将管圆线虫幼虫误诊为其他种类的幼虫,并且未经抗原检测确认的发现可能是由于食粪行为和摄入幼虫的排出;然而,这并不改变可以得出的主要结论:管圆线虫在芬兰已经多灶性存在。在其正在出现和传播的地区,提高对管圆线虫的认识很重要。