ArticleFrontiers in veterinary science2025
Increasing prevalence of
Article in Frontiers in veterinary science, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.
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- Diphyllobothrium stemmacephalum infections in harbor porpoises (Phocoena Phocoena) in German waters.International journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2025Article
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Abstract
Introduction: Harbor seals ( Methods: Data collected between 1996 and 2021 within the stranding network of the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, were used to analyze cestode prevalence and infection intensity in 1,317 harbor and 153 grey seals from the North Sea and Baltic Sea. A generalized additive model (GAM) assessed host-related factors and longitudinal effects on cestode prevalence in harbor seals from the North Sea ( Results and discussion: A highly significant increase in cestode prevalence over the 26-year study period was revealed in harbor seals from the North Sea, with prevalences of 0-14% between 1996 and 2012 and 9-36% from 2013 to 2021. Cestode prevalence in grey seals showed significant ecosystem-specific differences and was higher in the Baltic (64%) than in the North Sea (1%). Infection intensities were species-specific, and grey seals exhibited severe infections significantly more often than harbor seals. Histopathological alterations in intestinal tissue were unrelated to cestode infections. Molecular analyses showed that both pinniped species are infected with the same diphyllobothriid species, with the highest sequence similarities of 98.85% (ITS-2) and 90.65% (COI) to
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