Gastrointestinal nematodes of European wild boar from distinct agricultural and forest habitats in Poland

Table 1 Gastrointestinal nematode infection (P, %—prevalence, I—mean intensity, R—range, A—mean abundance) in wild boars by hunting area

Hunting area and number of wild boars (n)	Ascarops strongylina	Physocephalus sexalatus	Globocephalus urosubulatus	Ascarissuum	Trichurissuis	Oesophagostomum dentatum	Bourgelatia diducta
Forest sites (n = 31^a)
P (%)	82.6^b	87.0	93.5^b	6.5^b	48.4^b	0.0	19.4
I	26.5	32.5	79.1	1.0	8.1	0.0	4.8
R	1–71	2–191	2–312	1	1–53^b	0	1–11
A	21.9^b	28.2	74.0^b	0.1^b	3.9	0.0	0.9
Arable lands (n = 26)
P (%)	3.8^c	0.0	7.7 ^c	61.5^c	84.6^c	3.8	23.1
I	2.0	0.0	13.0	1.6	4.2	26.0	3.2
R	2	0	11–15	1–5	1-23^c	26	1–6
A	0.1^c	0.0	1.0^c	1.0^c	3.5	1.0	0.7

^aEight animals from forest sites, i.e. a female < 1 year, two males < 1 year, and five males ≥ 1 year old were obtained without stomachs, which was taken into account when estimating the infection of wild boars with A. strongylina and P. sexalatus—the gastric parasite species
^{b, c}In same column, different superscript letters between particular infection rates (P, R, or A) mean significant difference at P < 0.05

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