Cardiorespiratory and gastrointestinal parasites of dogs in north-west Italy

Statistical results of the comparisons among gender, lifestyle and age groups of 450 dogs with P values of Pearson’s or Fisher’s tests (ns: not significant, -means that the test was not performed due to very low number of positive cases)

Tests results on 450 dogs	Gender			Lifestyle			Age
	F(n=190)	M(n=260)	P values	hunting(n=344)	non hunting(n=106)	P values	≤1 year(n=57)	1 – 7 years(n=269)	≥7 years(n=124)	P values
											Cardio-respiratory parasites
Eucoleus aerophilus	25	18	0.0263	43	0	0.0001	12	23	8	0.005
Eucoleus boehmi	1	6	ns	2	5	0.0093	2	2	3	ns
Angiostrongylus vasorum	1	2	ns	2	1	-	0	1	2	ns
Crenosoma vulpis	1	0	ns	1	0	-	0	1	0	ns
Intestinal parasites
Toxocara canis	36	54	ns	80	10	0.0019	13	53	24	ns
Trichuris vulpis	32	48	ns	51	29	0.0032	13	53	14	ns
Ancylostomatidae	26	28	ns	51	3	0.0009	12	31	11	ns
Coccidia	4	8	ns	9	3	ns	3	6	3	ns
Toxascaris leonina	3	5	ns	8	0	ns	4	4	0	0.009
Aonchotheca putorii	4	4	ns	8	0	ns	0	5	3	ns
Hymenolepis diminuta	4	1	-	3	2	-	1	1	3	-
Dipylidium caninum	1	0	-	1	0	-	0	1	0	-
Physaloptera spp.	0	1	-	1	0	-	0	1	0	-

Results of copromicroscopic examination by flotation in centrifuge of the faecal samples of 450 dogs (%: prevalence value; CI: Confidence Interval)

Flotation results of 450 dogs	N tot. pos.	%	CI
Cardio – respiratory parasites
Eucoleus aerophilus	43	9.6	6.8 – 12.3
Eucoleus boehmi	7	1.6	0.4 – 2.7
Angiostrongylus vasorum	3	0.7	0 – 1.4
Crenosoma vulpis	1	0.2	0 – 0.7
Intestinal parasites
Toxocara canis	90	20.0	16.3 – 23.7
Trichuris vulpis	80	17.8	14.2 – 21.3
Ancylostomatidae	54	12.0	9.0 – 15.0
Coccidia	12	2.7	1.2 – 4.2
Toxascaris leonina	8	1.8	0.6 – 3.0
Aonchotheca putorii	8	1.8	0.6 – 3.0
Hymenolepis diminuta	5	1.1	0.1 – 2.1
Dipylidium caninum	1	0.2	0 – 0.7
Physaloptera spp.	1	0.2	0 – 0.7