Table 1.
Zoonotic hookworm species recovered from Australian peri-urban wild dogs and foxes.
| Location | Definitive host (n) |
Parasite species | Prevalence % (n) |
Reference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Townsville | Wild dogs (27) |
A. caninum | 74 (20) | Brown and Copeman, 2003 |
| Maroochy Shire | Wild dogs (108) |
A. caninum | 37 (40) | Jenkins et al., 2008 |
| Fraser Island | Wild dogs (18) |
A. caninum | 83.3 (15) | Jenkins et al., 2008 |
| Cairns | Wild dog scats (38) |
A.caninum A. ceylanicum A. braziliense |
78.9 (30) 55.3 (21) 2.6 (1) |
Smout et al., 2013 |
| Canberra | Foxes (45) |
U. stenocephala | 80 (36) | Jenkins and Craig, unpublished data |
| Maroochy Shire | Foxes (7) |
A. caninum | 42.8 (3) | Jenkins et al., 2008 |