Helminth parasites of Natal long-fingered bats, Miniopterus natalensis (Chiroptera : Miniopteridae), in South Africa

dc.contributor.authorJunker, Kerstin
dc.contributor.authorBain, Odile
dc.contributor.authorBoomker, Jacob Diederik Frederik
dc.contributor.emailjoop.boomker@up.ac.zaen
dc.coverage.spatialAfricaen
dc.coverage.spatialSouth Africaen
dc.coverage.spatialKwaZulu-Natal, Province ofen
dc.date.accessioned2009-04-19T08:05:42Z
dc.date.available2009-04-19T08:05:42Z
dc.date.issued2008-09
dc.description.abstractThe helminth community infecting Miniopterus natalensis was studied at two localities, the De Hoop Nature Reserve (DHNR) (n = 57), Western Cape Province and Pretoria (n = 12), Gauteng Province, South Africa. Hosts from the DHNR had formed part of an earlier, unrelated study and were all pregnant females. A single hymenolepidid cestode species, the nematodes Molinostrongylus ornatus and Litomosa chiropterorum together with nematodes of the subfamily Capillariinae were present at both study sites, while a single digenean, Allassogonoporus sp., was only found in hosts from the DHNR. The prevalence of helminth infections was high at both localities, 68.4 % in the DHNR and 77.7 % in Pretoria, whereas the mean intensity of infection was low at the DHNR (3.76 ± 3.15), but higher in Pretoria (10.4 ± 9.9). Molinostrongylus ornatus and, to a lesser extent L. chiropterorum, were the main contributors to the higher intensities in Pretoria. The species richness ranged from 0 to 4 at both localities.en
dc.description.sponsorshipUniversity of Pretoriaen
dc.identifier.citationJunker, K, Bain, O & Boomker, J 2008, ‘Helminth parasites of Natal long-fingered bats, Miniopterus natalensis (Chiroptera: Miniopteridae), in South Africa’, Onderstepoort Journal of Veterinary Research, vol. 75, no. 3, pp. 261–265. [http://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_opvet.html]en
dc.identifier.issn0030-2465
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/9703
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherAgricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoriaen
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dc.rightsAgricultural Research Council, ARC-OVI and the University of Pretoriaen
dc.subjectCestodaen
dc.subjectChiropteraen
dc.subjectDigeneaen
dc.subjectNematodaen
dc.subject.lcshBats -- South Africaen
dc.subject.lcshHelminthsen
dc.titleHelminth parasites of Natal long-fingered bats, Miniopterus natalensis (Chiroptera : Miniopteridae), in South Africaen
dc.typeArticleen

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