Serosurveillance of Trichinella sp. in wild boar and Iberian domestic suids in Mediterranean ecosystems of southwestern Spain.
Leandro BuffoniDavid Cano TerrizaDébora Jiménez-MartínSaúl Jiménez-RuizÁlvaro Martínez-MorenoFrancisco Javier Martínez-MorenoRafael Zafra LevaRaúl Pérez-CaballeroMaría Ángeles RisaldeFélix Gómez-GuillamónIgnacio García BocanegraPublished in: Zoonoses and public health (2023)
Although wild boar play an important role as a reservoir of Trichinella sp. in the Mediterranean ecosystems of southwestern Spain, our results suggest that the wild boar production system does not seem to pose a risk of Trichinella exposure to domestic pigs, despite sharing habitats in these ecosystems.