Gastrointestinal parasites of the Polish primitive horses from the Biebrza National Park

K. Slivinska; Z. Wróblewski; J. Gawor

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Gastrointestinal parasites of the Polish primitive horses from the Biebrza National Park

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Published Online: Mar 10, 2016

Page range: 39 - 46

Received: Feb 27, 2015

Accepted: Jul 15, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/helmin-2015-0065

Keywords
horse, parasite community, biodiversity, Strongylidae, Poland

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Results of faecal egg counts in free-ranging and stabled Polish primitive horses (n=31) in the Biebrza National Park, Poland

Horses		Strongylidae			Parascaris equorum			Strongyloides westeri			Cestoda
		EI %	Mean EPG	SD	EI %	MeanEPG	SD	EI %	MeanEPG	SD
Group I, n=10	Stallion, n=1	100	1425.	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Mares, n=6	100	1087.5	412.5	16.7	50	0	0	0	0	0
	Foals n=3	100	1025.0	327.9	100	566.7	454.4	100	150	86.6	0
Group II, n=11	Stallion, n=1	100	75.0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Mares, n=10	100	750.0	404.1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Geld, n=1	100	575	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Group III, n=10	Mares, n=6	100	529.2	389.0	16.7	25	0	0	0	0	0
Group III, n=10	Foals, n=3	100	541.7	278.8	100	236.7	162.5	33.3	400	0	0

Results of the gastrointestinal survey in free-ranging and stabled Polish primitive horses (n=31) in the Biebrza National Park, Poland

	Group I (n=10)					Group II (n=11)			Group III (n=10)
Parasite species	Prevalence %		MWB ± SD (Total number of specimens)		Prevalence %	MWB ± SD (Total number of specimens)	Prevalence %		MWB ± SD (Total number of specimens)
	Adults horses, n=7	Foals, n=3	Adults horses, n=7	Foals, n=3	Adults horses, n=11		Adults horses, n=7	Foals, n=3	Adults horses, n=7	Foals, n=3
Strongylinae	60		6.3 (63)	100	17.2 (189)	30		6.3 (19)
Strongylus vulgaris	57.1	0	7.5 ± 5.5	0	72.7	8.0 ± 5.6	28.6	0	3.0 ± 1.6	0
S. edentatus	85.7	0	5.0 ± 4.1	0	90.9	9.1 ± 5.5	28.6	0	5.5 ± 2.7 0
Triodontophorus serratus	28.6	0	1 ± 0.5	0	54.6	2.0 ± 1.3	0	0	0	0
T. brevicauda	0	0	0	0	45.5	2.0 ± 1.1	14.3	0	2.0 ± 0.8	0
T. tenuicollis	14.3	0	1 ± 0.4	0	36.6	1.5 ± 0.8	0	0	0	0
Craterostomum acuticaudatum	0	0	0	0	36.4	1.5 ± 0.8	0	0	0	0
Cyathostominae	100		312.2 (3122)		100	982.7 (10810)	100		63.9 (6385)
Cyathostomum catinatum	100		57.4 ± 58.2		100	137.2 ± 26.9	100		115.6 ± 90.9
C. pateratum	90		12.4 ± 9.3		100	22.9 ± 10.1	70		23.1 ± 60.3
Coronocyclus coronatus	100		14.7 ± 10.5		100	47.0 ± 19.9	90		37.6 ± 28.1
C. labiatus	50		2.4 ± 1.4		100	9.6 ± 4.2	60		10.3 ± 7.0
C. labratus	>50		3.8 ± 2.6		100	10.6 ± 3.4	60		7.2 ± 5.6
Cylicostephanus calicatus	90		15.4 ± 12.2		100	50.7 ± 21.3	100		22.8 ± 18.4
C. minutes	100		44.6 ± 42.1		100	158.5 ± 52.7	100		115.6 ± 88.0
C. hybridus	30		1.0 ± 0.5		45.5	1.6 ± 0.9	0		0
C. longibursatus	100		51.5 ± 57.3		100	166.7 ± 27.5	100		104.6 ± 81.3
C. goldi	80		8.4 ± 6.4		100	30.0 ± 10.4	90		25.6 ± 19.7
C. bidentatus	30		1.0 ± 0.5		72.7	2.1 ± 1.3	10		2.0 ± 0.6
Cylicocyclus radiatus	10		1.0 ± 0.3		27.3	1.0 ± 0.5	0		0
C. elongates	70		2.4 ± 1.6		100	16.3 ± 4.8	90		16 ± 12.6
C. insigne	90		8.7 ± 6.6		100	44.3 ± 19.9	100		20.3 ± 16.1
C. leptostomum	80		4.8 ± 4.3		100	18.7 ± 6.3	60		13.8 ± 9.1
C. nassatus	100		72.0 ± 60.5		100	170.2 ± 43.3	100		111.3 ± 85.9
C. ashworthi	100		21.4 ± 17.9		100	86.6 ± 23.1	100		38.2 ± 30.6
C. ultrajectinus	30		1.0 ± 0.5		72.7	4.5 ± 3.9	20		2.0 ± 0.8
Cylicodontophorus bicoronatus	10		1.0 ± 0.3		63.6	3.1 ± 2.2	0		0
Parapoteriostomum euproctus	40		2.0 ± 1.0		0	0	40		5.5 ± 3.3
P. mettami	10		1.0 ± 0.3		72.7	2.5 ± 1.5	50		1.4 ± 0.8
Poteriostomum imparidentatum	10		1.0 ± 0.3		63.6	1.9 ± 1.2	0		0
P. ratzii	10		1.0 ± 0.3		54.6	2.0 ± 1.3	0		0
Petrovinema poculatum	20		1.0 ± 0.4		81.8	1.6 ± 0.9	30		1.3 ± 0.7
G. capitatus	0		0		27.3	1.0 ± 0.5	0		0
Ascaridae
Parascaris equorum	20		9.0 ± 4.2 (18)		0	0	30		2.0 ± 1.3 (6)
Oxyuridae Oxyuris equi	70		6.1 ± 4.8 (43)		100	39.6 ± 12.5 (435)	60		2.0 ± 1.6 (12)
Habronematidae Habronema muscae	30		1.0 ± 0.5 (3)		0	0	0		0
Anoplocephalidae Anoplocephala perfoliata	90		4.1 ± 2.0 (37)		0	0	0		0
Gasterophilidae Gasterophilus intestinalis	80		4.4 ± 3.4 (35)		72.7	5.8 ± 3.3 (46)	50		2.4 ± 1.5 (12)

The gastrointestinal parasite species found in Polish primitive horses from Biebrza National Park (present study), Roztocze National Park (Slivinska et al., 2013) and Popielno forest reserve (Slivinska et al., 2009)

Parasite species	Present study			Roztocze	Roztocze	Popielno
Parasite species	Wild horses, n=21		Stabled horses, n=10	Wild horses, n = 16 (Slivinska et al. 2013)	Stabled horses, n=13 (Slivinska et al. 2013)	Wild horses, n=11 (Slivinska et al. 2009)
	Group I	Group II
Strongylus vulgaris	+	+	+	+	+	+
S. edentatus	+	+	+	+	+	-
Triodontophorus serratus	+	+	-	+	+	+
T. brevicauda	-	+	+	+	+	-
T. tenuicolis	+	+	-	+	+	-
Craterostomum acuticaudatum	-	+	-	+	+	-
Cyathostomum catinatum	+	+	+	+	+	+
C. pateratum	+	+	+	+	+	+
Coronocyclus coronatus	+	+	+	+	+	+
C. labiatus	+	+	+	+	+	+
C. labratus	+	+	+	+	+	+
Cylicostephanus calicatus	+	+	+	+	+	+
C. minutus	+	+	+	+	+	+
C. hybridus	+	+	-	+	-	-
C. longibursatus	+	+	+	+	+	+
C. goldi	+	+	+	+	+	+
C. bidentatus	+	+	+	+	-	+
Cylicocyclus radiates	+	+	-	+	-	-
C. elongates	+	+	+	+	+	+
C. insigne	+	+	+	+	+	+
C. leptostomus	+	+	+	+	+	+
C. nassatus	+	+	+	+	+	+
C. ashworthi	+	+	+	+	+	+
C. ultrajectinus	+	+	+	+	-	+
C. bicoronatus	+	+	-	+	-	+
C. euproctus	+	-	+	+	+	+
C. mettami	+	+	+	+	+	+
Poteriostomum imparidentatum	+	+	-	+	+	+
P. ratzii	+	+	-	+	-	-
Petrovinema poculatum	+	+	+	+	+	-
Gyalocephalus capitatus	-	+	-	+	-	+
Parascaris equorum	+	-	+	+	+	+
Habronema muscae	+	-	-	+	+	+
Oxyuris equi	+	+	+	-	-	+
Anoplocephala perfoliata	+	-	-	+	+	+
Gasterophilus intestinalis	+	+	+	+	+	+
Number of cyathostome species	24	24	19	25	18	21
Number of parasite species	33	32	25	35	28	28

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Gastrointestinal parasites of the Polish primitive horses from the Biebrza National Park

Article Category: Research Article

Published Online: Mar 10, 2016

Page range: 39 - 46

Received: Feb 27, 2015

Accepted: Jul 15, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/helmin-2015-0065

Keywordshorse, parasite community, biodiversity, Strongylidae, Poland

© 2016 Institute of Parasitology, SAS, Košice

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Results of faecal egg counts in free-ranging and stabled Polish primitive horses (n=31) in the Biebrza National Park, Poland

Results of the gastrointestinal survey in free-ranging and stabled Polish primitive horses (n=31) in the Biebrza National Park, Poland

The gastrointestinal parasite species found in Polish primitive horses from Biebrza National Park (present study), Roztocze National Park (Slivinska et al., 2013) and Popielno forest reserve (Slivinska et al., 2009)

Keywords
horse, parasite community, biodiversity, Strongylidae, Poland