Screening van de prevalentie van de Vossenlintworm (Echinococcus multilocularis) in de Muskusrat (Ondatra zibethicus) in Vlaanderen. Screening op de aanwezigheid van cysten in muskusratten gevangen in kader van bestrijding in 2022
Since 2009, all muskrats collected by VMM controllers are examined by the INBO. In 2022, only 25 (0.59%) of the 4,203 muskrats examined were infected with fox tapeworm. For Flanders, 10 infections were found out of a total of 2,937 muskrats examined. At 0.34%, this is a significantly lower prevalence than in the period 2008-2017. In Wallonia, this prevalence was still significantly higher and 15 out of 398 (3.77%) muskrats surveyed were infected. Thus, there has been no spread of fox tapeworm from Wallonia to Flanders. Keeping the muskrat population low in Flanders probably plays an important role in this.
Details
| Number of pages | 15 |
|---|---|
| Type | Reports of Research Institute for Nature and Forest |
| Category | Research |
| Language | Dutch |
Bibtex
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title = "Screening van de prevalentie van de Vossenlintworm (Echinococcus multilocularis) in de Muskusrat (Ondatra zibethicus) in Vlaanderen",
abstract = "Since 2009, all muskrats collected by VMM controllers are examined by the INBO. In 2022, only 25 (0.59%) of the 4,203 muskrats examined were infected with fox tapeworm. For Flanders, 10 infections were found out of a total of 2,937 muskrats examined. At 0.34%, this is a significantly lower prevalence than in the period 2008-2017. In Wallonia, this prevalence was still significantly higher and 15 out of 398 (3.77%) muskrats surveyed were infected. Thus, there has been no spread of fox tapeworm from Wallonia to Flanders. Keeping the muskrat population low in Flanders probably plays an important role in this.
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author = "Frank Huysentruyt and Emma Cartuyvels and Kristof Baert",
year = "2024",
month = jan,
day = "01",
doi = "https://doi.org/10.21436/inbor.102571850",
language = "English",
publisher = "Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek",
address = "Belgium,
type = "Other"
}
