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Table 2

Summary of the results obtained in this study and literature review of studies published on helminth parasites associated with Atelerix algirus. Some studies were focussed on specific groups of parasites only.

Reference, hedgehog location and number of animals analysed per study.
This study
García-Salguero et al. 2019 [33]
Delgado-Serra et al. 2016 [21]
Paredes-Esquivel et al. 2019 [67]
Esteban et al. 1987 [27]
Esteban et al. 1987 [27]
Mas-Coma et al. 1993 [57]
Mas-Coma et al. 2000 [55]
Dollfus 1954 [25]
Khaldi et al. 2012 [46]
Torres-Martínez 1988 [87]
Mas-Coma 1979 [54]
Mas-Coma & Feliu 1977 [56]
Sánchez Vicente 2013 [76]
Fuentes et al. 2000 [29]
Mallorca islands
Mallorca islands
Mallorca islands
Mallorca islands
Formentera islands
Mallorca, Menorca & Ibiza islands
Cabrera island
Ibiza island
Western Morocco
Algeria
Catalunya (Spain)
Catalunya (Spain)
Catalunya (Spain)
Canary Islands
Valencian Region (Spain)
Helminth species n = 277 n = 7 n = 2 n = 44 n = 20 n = 1 n = 8 n = ? n = 25 n = 2 n = 3 n = ? n = 7 n = 3
Acanthocephala
 Acanthocephala sp. larvae 20.0%
 Moniliformis 14.28% 43.18% x x x 32.0%
 Moniliformis saudi 21.84%
 Plagiorhynchus cylindraceus 13.79% 2.53%
Cestoda
 Cestoda sp. 28.57% 4.0%
 Mathevotaenia sp. 10.34%
 Mathevotaenia aethechini x
 Mathevotaenia erinacei 8.0% 42.8%
Nematoda
 Angiostrongylus cantonensis 11.46% x
 Aonchotheca sp. 42.85%
 Aonchotheca erinacei 27.59% 36.36% x 4.0%
 Capillariidae 28.57%
 Capillaria annulosa x
 Crenosoma striatum 88.07% 85.71% x 4.0% 14.3% 66.67%
 Eucoleus sp. 7.34%
 Eucoleus aerophilus 42.85%
 Gongylonema sp. 20.31%
 Gongylonema sp. 13.63% x 36.0% 33.33%
 Physaloptera dispar = P. clausa 93.18% x x x 64.0%
 Physaloptera immerpani 5.48%
 Physaloptera sp. larvae 36.0%
 Pterygodermatites plagiostoma x 4.0% 14.3% 33.33%
 Spirura rytipleurites seurati 5.4% 24.0% 42.8%
 Trichuridae gen. sp. 50.0%
Trematoda
 Brachylaima sp. 3.45% x 28.6%
 Dollfusinus frontalis 11.36% x
 Zonorchis sp. 2.27%
 Zonorchis guevarai x

x presence of the parasite but prevalence not quantified.

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