Certain parasitosis of the wild boar and their importance in wildlife management in Hungary and in certain hunting regions of Heves county

Abstract

The authors examined coccidia infection of fecal of wild boars shot in the south region of Mátra in Hungary. All animals were harvested in the 2009-2011 hunting season.

Seventy one (43.82%) positive results were found out of 162 wild boars tested for coccidia oocyst. The Eimeria spp. were indentified in 44 cases and Eimeria perminuta in 41 cases (93.18%), E. debliecki 21 cases (47.72%), E. scabra 11 cases (25.0%), E. neodebliecki 6 cases (13.63%) were found. In case of the wild boars that were younger than 1-year-old 21 positive samples (29.57%) were found and in case of older than 1-year-old wild boars, 50 (70.42%) animals were tested positively. The coccidia oocyst infection occoured more frequently in case of males- 42 (59.16%) were tested positivley- as for the females 29 (40.84%) positive samples were found. Based on the results, even co-infection between Eimerias and helminths can be assumed.