Table 2. Comparison of worm-detection at necropsy and egg-detection in fecal egg examination.
| Examination | No. positive samples for parasite
speciesa) in each examination |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mes. lit. | Tox. leo. | Ala. ala. | Ech. mul. | Ech. shi. | Tae. cra. | Tae. mul. | Tae. pis. | |
| Necropsy | 15 | 11 | 2 | –b) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| Fecal egg examination | 4 | 8 | 0 | – | 1c) | 1c) | 2c) | 2c) |
a) Mes. lit.: Mesocestoides litteratus, Tox. leo.: Toxascaris leonina, Ala. ala.: Alaria alata, Ech. mul.: Echinococcus multilocularis, Ech. shi.: Echinococcus shiquicus, Tae. cra.: Taenia crassiceps, Tae. mul.: Taenia multiceps, Tae. pis.: Taenia pisiformis. b) Examination was not done, because no samples were obtained from foxes infected with the parasite species. c) Detected as morphologically species-indistinguishable taeniid eggs.