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Dis Aquat Organ ; 127(1): 49-56, 2017 Dec 19.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-29256427

ABSTRACT

Harbour porpoises are often found to be infected by endoparasites in several organs including the lungs and stomach as well as the heart, liver and ears. Nevertheless there is still little knowledge about the impact, ecology, transmission, and virulence of these parasitic infections. Here, we profile the presence of parasites in 4 frequently infected organs (lungs, stomach, liver and ears) in relation to biological parameters of harbour porpoises stranded along the Dutch coastline between December 2008 and December 2013. We found that parasites were common, with prevalence of 68% in lungs, 74.4% in ears, 26% in stomach and 23.5% in liver. We used generalised linear models to further quantify parasite presence in relation to biological data gathered during necropsy (sex, body length and nutritive condition). Body length (used as a proxy for age) was significant in explaining parasite presence for all organs with increasing probability of having the parasite with increasing body length. For the parasitic infections in the ears and stomach the nutritive condition was an additional significant factor, with a higher probability of parasite presence in porpoises in a poorer nutritive condition. The results of this study can be used as a baseline for assessing parasite presence in harbour porpoises and are a first step towards linking parasite infections to basic biological data gathered during necropsy.


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Parasitic Diseases, Animal/parasitology , Phocoena/parasitology , Animals , Ear Diseases/parasitology , Ear Diseases/veterinary , Liver Diseases/parasitology , Liver Diseases/veterinary , Lung Diseases, Parasitic/veterinary , Netherlands , Parasitic Diseases, Animal/pathology , Stomach Diseases/parasitology , Stomach Diseases/veterinary
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