ABSTRACT
Three hundred and eighty-four samples of leaf litter, soil, faeces from domestic and game animals, compost and aqueous cultures of infective nematode larvae contaminated with unidentified fungi were plated out on water agar, baited with pure infective larvae of Haemonchus contortus, incubated and examined for the presence of nematophagous fungi. Duddingtonia flagrans was isolated from five samples, and 73 samples were positive for other nematophagous fungi.
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Ascomycota/physiology , Nematoda/growth & development , Nematoda/microbiology , Pest Control, Biological/methods , Animals , Ascomycota/ultrastructure , Feces/microbiology , Feces/parasitology , Haemonchus/microbiology , Soil/parasitology , Soil Microbiology , South AfricaABSTRACT
Dirofilaria immitis was diagnosed in 4 of 13 indigenous dogs from the Province of Zambézia, Mozambique, by acid phosphatase staining of microfilariae. The finding reconfirms the occurrence of the parasite in Mozambique after 3 decades and emphasises the need for extensive surveys. Additionally, in 1 of the infected dogs, microfilariae of Dipetalonema reconditum were detected, which is the 1st record of this parasite in Mozambique.
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Dirofilaria immitis/isolation & purification , Dirofilariasis/epidemiology , Dog Diseases/epidemiology , Acid Phosphatase , Animals , Dirofilariasis/diagnosis , Dog Diseases/diagnosis , Dog Diseases/parasitology , Dogs , Mozambique/epidemiology , Staining and Labeling/veterinaryABSTRACT
The metacestode of Taenia solium, Cysticercus cellulosae, was recovered from the brain of a cat showing central nervous clinical signs ante mortem. This is the first record of cerebral cysticercosis in a cat in South Africa.
