Infección por coccidios en carnívoros silvestres de cautiverio de Argentina / Coccidian infection in captive wild carnivores from Argentina

ABSTRACT

With the objective to determine the infection frequency by coccidia protozoa, 159 fecal samples from captive wiid camivores were analyzed. A 10.7 percent of the animal analyzed were positive to the infection. Whereas the family Procyonidae has a high percentage of positivity (35 percent), Canidae have lower infection ratio (23-33 percent) and Felidae only 0.3 percent). Family Musteldiae show negative findings: