Henke Scott E
Caesar Kleberg Wildlife Research Institute, Texas A&M University-Kingsville, MSC 218, 1150 Engineering Avenue, Kingsville, TX 78363, USA.
Trop Med Infect Dis. 2025 Jun 2;10(6):156. doi: 10.3390/tropicalmed10060156.
is a debilitating and potentially lethal zoonotic disease caused by a nematode parasite that has a worldwide distribution. spp. are carried by a variety of mammalian definitive hosts, and their larvae can infect a large diversity of paratenic hosts including birds and mammals, and even humans. Herein, the potential exposure risk of this zoonotic parasite is demonstrated through the study of a suburban American community with a population of -infected raccoons () as a case study for any location with spp., definitive hosts, and proximity to humans. Soil from 100 properties within neighborhoods of southern Corpus Christi, TX, USA, was surveyed to determine if viable eggs were present. In total, 27% of the residential properties were contaminated. Positive soil samples, on average, contained 31,287 eggs/gram of soil; of these samples, 92% of the eggs had motile larvae. Sites with contaminated soils appeared random within residential properties; frequency of contaminated sites was similar between known raccoon defecation sites and random sites. Suggestions for the reduction in risks of exposure to this potentially debilitating parasite are offered to residents of -contaminated properties.
是一种由线虫寄生虫引起的使人衰弱且可能致命的人畜共患病，在全球范围内均有分布。 属由多种哺乳动物终宿主携带，其幼虫可感染包括鸟类和哺乳动物甚至人类在内的多种转续宿主。在此，通过对美国一个郊区社区进行研究，以感染浣熊（ ）的人群为例，对任何存在 属、终宿主且靠近人类的地点，证明了这种人畜共患寄生虫的潜在暴露风险。对美国得克萨斯州科珀斯克里斯蒂市南部社区内100处房产的土壤进行了调查，以确定是否存在活的 虫卵。总体而言，27%的住宅房产受到污染。阳性土壤样本平均每克土壤含有31287个 虫卵；在这些样本中，92%的 虫卵有活动的幼虫。受污染土壤的地点在住宅房产内看似是随机分布的；已知浣熊排便地点和随机地点的受污染地点频率相似。针对受 污染房产的居民，提供了降低接触这种可能使人衰弱的寄生虫风险的建议。
