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. 2017 Dec 12;15(12):e05077. doi: 10.2903/j.efsa.2017.5077

Table 33.

Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato positive/tested (%) animals (domestic and wild) in 2016

Country Sheep Sheep and goats Goats Cattle Pigsa Mouflons Reindeer Solipeds, domestic Deer Water buffalos Wild boars Moose Dogsa Wolvesa Fox
Austria 28/130,740 (0.02%) 0/7,304 92/686,525 (0.01%) 0/5,197,563
Belgium 0/913,745
Bulgaria 7,566/173,466 (4.36%) 21/3,408 (0.6%) 1,882/31,539 (5.96%) 527/1,043,004 (0.05%)
Croatia 0/5 0/6
Cyprus 1/18 (5.56%)
Denmark 0/539,600 0/17,843,548
Estonia 0/6,748 0/26 0/37,701 0/524,227 0/10
Finland 0/60,153 0/273 0/279,402 0/2,051,168 6/62,464 (< 0.01%) 0/1,261 0/488 0/338 0/230 15/74 (20.27%)
Greece 10,308/1,491,742 (0.69%) 2,097/313,644 (0.67%) 862/67,695 (1.27%) 60/452,126 (0.01%) 0/110
Hungary 7/16 (43.75%) 3/3 (100%) 8/45 (17.77%) 0/1
Italy 42,882/355,357 (12.06%) 772/37,705 (2.05%) 4,754/863,409 (0.55%) 407/4,837,977 (< 0.01%) 3/5,281 (0.005%) 0/377 26/26,783 (0.09%) 103/34,177 (0.3%) 5/13 (38.46%) 1/3 (33%)
Latvia 0/22,273 0/93 0/93,496 0/452,533 0/67
Luxembourg 0/25,750 0/176,968
Malta 0/333
Netherlands 0/1
Poland 190/35,527 (0.53%) 2/1,920,854 (< 0.01%) 37233/22,438,554 (0.17%)
Romania 0/25 0/17 298/360 (82.77%) 5/17 (29.41%) 4/147 (2.72%)
Slovakia 0/9,992 0/120 0/36,587 1/555,229 (< 0.01%) 0/1,685
Slovenia 0/10,179 0/1,252 0/111,634 0/258,307 0/1,424
Spain 80,478/8,389,626 (0.01%) 0/1,848 24,144/889,029 (0.03%) 5,239/1,727,190 (0.3%) 3,345/16,175,576 (0.02%)b 0/1 6/16,956 (0.03%) 21/80,667 (0.02%) 8/26995 (0.02%)
Sweden 0/217,980 0/1,218 0/411,020 0/2,526,500 0/54,745 0/2,670 0/5,774 0/15,670 0/5 0/41
Total EU 141,269/11,782,042 (1.2%) 190/35,527 (0.5%) 27,034/1,254,089 (2.2%) 13,132/6,832771 (0.2%) 41,578/74,533,348 (0.06%) 1/19 (5.3%) 6/117,209 (< 0.001%) 9/27,669 (0.03%) 21/87,306 (0.02%) 26/26,783 (0.1%) 111/77,290(0.14%) 0/230 9/2,183 (0.41%) 15/115 (13.%) 1/3 (33.3%)
Norway 0/1,285,000 0/23,800 0/286,000 0/1,651,000 0/8

Slaughter batch data and animals from zoo were not included in the table.

a

Dogs, wolves and pigs for which the species level of Echinococcus was not specified could be allocated in both Tables 32 and 33 if there is circulation of E. multilocularis and E. granulosus s.l. For dogs: France (0 positives out of 6).

b

Among pigs, 68 positives out of 46,559 tested were wild.