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Alaria spp. mesocercariae in Eurasian badger (Meles meles) and wild boar (Sus scrofa) from the Białowieża Forest, north-eastern Poland

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Alaria spp. mesocercariae are commonly found in wild boar and other omnivorous mammals. In Europe, the number of cases presenting Alaria mesocercariae infections has been on the rise in the last years. From October to December 2016, samples of muscle from tongue, neck, and mandibular regions were collected from 1 Eurasian badger (Meles meles) and 14 wild boars (Sus scrofa) hunted in the Białowieża Forest, north-eastern Poland. Using the Alaria migration technique (AMT), Alaria mesocercariae were isolated and morphologically identified in one badger and one wild boar. To the authors’ knowledge, this is the first report of Alaria mesocercariae in paratenic hosts from the Białowieża Forest.

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Acknowledgments

The authors are grateful to L. Flores (Frankenförder Forschungsgesellschaft mbH, Luckenwalde, Germany) for his insights and comments during the writing process of this manuscript, Dariusz Chilecki from MRI PAS for the technical assistance in material collection, and hunters for the opportunity of the material acquisition from hunted animals. The authors are also grateful to the three anonymous reviewers for their suggestions and comments.

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This study was partially funded by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Affairs and Energy (grant no. MF150087).

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  1. Zaida Rentería-Solís

    Present address: Institute of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Leipzig, An den Tierkliniken 35, 04103, Leipzig, Saxony, Germany

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  1. FrankenförderForschungsgesellschaf t mbH, Postdamer Str. 18a, 14943, Luckenwalde, Brandenburg, Germany

    Zaida Rentería-Solís

  2. Research Group Food Microbiology, Department Ökothropologie, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Ulmenliet 20, 21033, Hamburg, Germany

    Zaida Rentería-Solís & Katharina Riehn

  3. Mammal Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Stoczek 1, 17-230, Białowieża, Poland

    Marta Kołodziej-Sobocińska

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Rentería-Solís, Z., Kołodziej-Sobocińska, M. & Riehn, K. Alaria spp. mesocercariae in Eurasian badger (Meles meles) and wild boar (Sus scrofa) from the Białowieża Forest, north-eastern Poland. Parasitol Res 117, 1297–1299 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-018-5819-5

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