Helminth parasites of cats from the Vientiane Province, Laos, as indicators of the occurrence of causative agents of human parasitoses

The parasite fauna of stray domestic cats (Felis catus) in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

“…2004;Porqueddu et al 2004), and single cases have been reported from Central Europe (Supperer and Hinaidy 1986;Schuster and Montag 2000;Barutzki and Scharper 2003). Interestingly, these cestodes are not native to Eastern and Southeastern Asia (Scholz et al 2003;Sohn and Chai 2005), Australia (Gregory and Munday 1976;Coman et al 1981) and America (Rep 1975;Rep and Heinemann 1976;Labarthe et al 2004;Lopez et al 2006). The only reported case in the USA was from a cat imported from Saudi Arabia (Blagburn and Todd 1986).…”

“…Ancylostoma ceylanicum occurs in countries of South and Southeast Asia (Yoshida et al 1968(Yoshida et al , 1973Setasuban et al 1976;Margono et al 1979;Scholz et al 2003;) but has also been found in South America (Rep and Heinemann 1976) and Australia (Palmer et al 2007). This hookworm mainly infects cats and, to a lesser extent, dogs, and it has been found in humans as well (Anderson 2000).…”

The Mitochondrial Genome of Toxocara canis

“…The transmissibility of this species to other host species (e.g., mouse, rat, rabbit and pig) warrants assessment, together with epidemiological surveys utilizing molecular tools employing genetic markers from the mitochondrial genome of T. canis as well as specific nuclear markers in the ITS-1 and/or ITS-2. The discovery of T. malaysiensis in cats in Malaysia [27] also raises important questions as to the identity and zoonotic potential of ascaridoids considered to represent T. canis in cats in other geographical regions, including South Africa, Panama, the USA and Czech Republic [76]–[81],[84], which provides a stimulus for the genetic characterization of additional Toxocara isolates from a broad range of hosts and geographical origins and to subsequently evaluate their potential to infect humans and/or other hosts.…”

High Prevalence ofAncylostoma ceylanicumHookworm Infections in Humans, Cambodia, 2012

“…There are an estimated 19–73 million A. ceylanicum hookworm–infected persons in regions where this zoonotic helminth is known to be endemic ( 7 ). Dogs and cats act as natural reservoirs for hookworm transmission to humans, and the prevalence of A. ceylanicum hookworms in these animals ranges from 24% to 92% in the Asia-Pacific region ( 6 , 8 – 10 ). Much like anthroponotic helminths, A. ceylanicum hookworms have the potential to produce clinical symptoms of ground itch (a pruritic papular hypersensitivity response caused by the entry of helminths into the skin), epigastric pain, diarrhea, and anemia in humans ( 11 – 15 ).…”