Are we paying too much attention to cardio-pulmonary nematodes and neglecting old-fashioned worms like Trichuris vulpis?

Table 1 Key examples of results from surveys [[51–59]; Traversa, unpublished data] carried out in the last decade in different regions of Italy on the presence (%) of Trichuris vulpis eggs in faeces of privately owned dogs (P), in faeces of kenneled dogs (K) and in environmental samples collected on city grounds (E).

Region	Tv			Av	Di
	P (%)	K (%)	E (%)
Northern Italy
Lombardy	7.9	nd	3.8-9	+*	+
Piedmont	5.5-8	25	4.1	nk	+
Central Italy
Abruzzo/Veneto§	8.3	59.4	nd	+	+
Abruzzo/Marche	15*	60*	nd	+	+
Abruzzo	nd	nd	10	+	+
Marche	nd	nd	20	+	+
Tuscany	nd	27	4.6	+	+
Southern Italy
Apulia	6	nd	3.3	+	+
Campania	nd	nd	10.1	nk	+
Insular Italy
Sardinia	nd	nd	2	nk	+
Sicily	nd	nd	10	nk	+

Presence (+) of Angiostrongylus vasorum (Av) and Dirofilaria immitis (Di) in the same regions is also reported on the basis of the information published on recent review articles [12, 77]. nd: not determined; nk: not known; *unpublished data; §combined data from a survey in central and northern Italy [57].

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