Table 2.
Number of slugs and snails collected between the months of May and October around the enclosure of Angiostrongylus vasorum infected meerkats.
| Month of collection | Total number of collected gastropods (n) |
A. vasorum PCR positivea (n, %) |
Families of the collected gastropod species |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arionidaea (n) |
Limacidae (n) |
Agriolimacidae (n) |
Clausiliidae (n) |
Oxychilidae (n) |
Unidentifiable (n) |
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| May | 35 | 0 (0%) | 11 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | 2 |
| July | 82 | 3 (4.4%) | 68 | 0 | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| August | 39 | 0 (0%) | 34 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| September | 33 | 1 (12.5%) | 8 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 1 | 0 |
| October | 4 | 0 (0%) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 193 | 4 (2.1%) | 121 | 6 | 19 | 44 | 1 | 2 |
a
Only gastropods belonging to the Arionidae were found positive by PCR.