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Épidémiologie de l’échinococcose alvéolaire en France I. — Helminthes intestinaux du renard commun (Vulpes vulpesL.) en Haute-Savoie
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Abstract
In the course of an epidemiological survey concerning the alveolar echinococcosis
and its causative agent, Echinococcus multilocularis, the autopsies of 150 wild red
foxes captured in the department of the Haute-Savoie between December 1983 and August
1988 disclosed 139 cases of intestinal helminthiasis with cestodes and nematodes;
no trematode was found. Multiple infections were frequent. The cestoda recorded consist
of the following species: Taenia crassiceps: 44 cases (29%); Echinococcus multilocularis:
34 cases (23%); Taenia polyacantha: 22 cases (14%); Mesocestoides litteratus: 7 cases
(4.6%); Amoebotaenia paradoxa: 1 case (0.6%). The Nematoda concerned are: Uncinaria
stenocephala: 79 cases (52%); Toxocara canis: 67 cases (44%); Toxascaris leonina:
16 cases (10%); Trichuris vulpis: 12 cases (8%); Pterygodermatites affinis: 8 cases
(5%); Trichostrongyloidea sp.: 5 cases (3%). The animals were not examined for Trichinella
spiralis. The results are compared with those observed anteriorly in the province
of Auvergne (France).