Table 2 Results from the diagnostic activity concerning A. vasorum related methodologies carried out at the SVA between 2011 and 2015

Groups

Numbers

Dogs, Baermann tested samples

298

355

504

693

1032

2882

A. vasorum positive canine faecal samples (%)

1 (0.3; 0.0–1.9)

1 (0.3; 0.0–1.6)

4 (0.8; 0.2–2)

5 (0.7; 0.2–1.7)

9 (0.9; 0.4–106)

20 (0.7; 0.4–1.1)

County of origin*

M

O

M, S, K, Y

AB, C, D, H, M

AB, BD, E, O, M, Y, Z

–

Red foxes necropsied

525

88

164

70

100

947

A. vasorum positive foxes (%)

1 (0.2; 0–1.1)

0 (0.0; 0.3.3)

1 (0.6; 0.0–3.4)

1 (1.4; 0.0–7.7)

0 (0; 0.0–3.0)

3 (0.3; 0.1–0.9)

County of origin*

G

–

O

O

–