Table 1.
Fecal samples, collected from dogs and cats positive or negative for Capillaria aerophila and other endoparasites, used to validate a diagnostic molecular assay specific for lung capillariosis
| Capillaria aerophila result and animal species | No. of positive samples/total (% positive) |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capillaria bohemi | Trichuris vulpis | Toxocara canis | Ancylostoma caninum | Isospora canis | Aelurostrongylus abstrusus | Toxocara cati | Ancylostoma tubaeforme | Isospora felis | Toxascaris leonina | Uncinaria stenocephala | Dipylidium caninun | |
| Positive | ||||||||||||
| Dog | 1/34 (2.9) | 13/34 (38.2) | 3/34 (8.8) | 7/34 (20.6) | 1/34 (2.9) | —a | — | — | — | 0/34 (0) | 2/34 (5.9) | 2/34 (5.9) |
| Cat | — | — | — | — | — | 4/10 (40) | 1/10 (10) | 1/10 (10) | 2/10 (20) | 1/10 (10) | 0/10 (0) | 1/10 (10) |
| Negative | ||||||||||||
| Dog | 0/22 (0) | 14/22 (63.6) | 5/22 (27.7) | 7/22 (31.8) | 3/22 (13.6) | — | — | — | — | 1/22 (4.5) | 0/22 (0) | 2/22 (9.1) |
| Cat | — | — | — | — | — | 8/22 (36.4) | 10/22 (45.5) | 1/22 (4.5) | 3/22 (13.6) | 4/22 (18.2) | 0/22 (0) | 4/22 (18.2) |
a
—, not found in this host.