Alexandra Juhasz, Emma Chapman, Amy Martin, Lucas J Cunningham, Sam Jones, Bridget Johnson, Naomi Davies Walsh, Jen Quayle, Jonathan Cracknell, E James LaCourse, J Russell Stothard
Knowsley Safari (KS), Prescot, United Kingdom houses a variety of captive exotic ungulates. As part of their animal welfare plan, a prospective coprological survey was undertaken for liver fluke. In June 2021, 330 fecal samples, representative of 18 exotic ungulate species, were processed by sedimentation and filtration, with examination by coproscopy. Finding fascioliasis in all five vicuña alone, with fecal egg counts ranging from one to eight eggs per gram, anthelminthic treatment was attempted twice, with three coprological reviews...
July 2023: Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine: Official Publication of the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians