VMD 512: Zoo/Wild Animal Breeding, Management, Nutrition and Health Care (1+1)

ANCYLOSTOMOSIS IN CIVET CAT

• The eggs are oval, thin shelled with compact unembryonated yolk mass. There hook worms usually inhabitates the small intestinal segments in captive fields.
• These parasites enter the host mostly by skin - penetration though oral infection, prenatal and lactogenic infection can occur. Among the various Ancylostomes, Ancylostoma ceylanicum has been recorded from civet cat in Asia.