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Volume 22, Number 4—April 2016
Dispatch

Definitive Hosts of Versteria Tapeworms (Cestoda: Taeniidae) Causing Fatal Infection in North America

Laura M. Lee, Roberta S. Wallace, Victoria L. Clyde, Annette Gendron-Fitzpatrick, Samuel D. Sibley, Margot Stuchin, Michael Lauck, David H. O’Connor, Minoru Nakao, Antti Lavikainen, Eric P. Hoberg, and Tony L. GoldbergComments to Author 
Author affiliations: University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, Wisconsin, USA (L.M. Lee, A. Gendron-Fitzpatrick, S.D. Sibley, M. Lauck, D.H. O’Connor); Milwaukee County Zoo, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA (R.S. Wallace, V.L. Clyde, A. Gendron-Fitzpatrick); Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA (M. Stuchin); Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, Madison (M. Lauck, D.H. O’Connor, T.L. Goldberg); Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan (M. Nakao); University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland (A. Lavikainen); United States National Parasite Collection, Beltsville, Maryland, USA (E.P. Hoberg)

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Table 1

Parasites in wild carnivore feces samples collected on the grounds of and near the Milwaukee County Zoo, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, 2014*

Parasite Host, % positive
Coyote, n = 3 Long-tailed weasel, n = 6 Mink, n = 8 Raccoon, n = 31 Skunk, n = 3
Ascarid – – – 12.9 –
Baylisascaris procyonis – – – 35.5 –
Cestode 33.3 50.0 16.7 25.8 66.7
Coccidia 66.7 33.3 – 22.6 33.3
Cystoisospora spp. – – – 3.2 –
Giardia spp. – – 16.7 25.8 –
Hookworm – – – 12.9 33.3
Strongylid – 16.7 33.3 12.9 33.3
Trichuris spp. – – 33.3 22.6 –
Other† 66.7 33.3 50.0 3.2 –

*–, not present.
†Other parasites were unidentified metastrongyles, nematodes, and protozoans.

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