Carnivora, Bowdich, 1821

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3.1.2. Carnivora

A total of 728 samples were from the order Carnivora . Ascaridida eggs (16.6%) were diagnosed most frequently, including species from the genera Toxocara spp. (53.7%), Toxascaris spp. (27.3%) and Baylisascaris spp. (17.4%). Two of the samples (1.6%) did not include further information about the detected species. Ascaridida eggs were most commonly found among the family Felidae , especially Felinae (35.7%) were infected with ascarids (Supplementary Material Table 1). The second most prevalent parasite found were coccidia oocysts, which were detected in 8.1% of the samples; all coccidia oocysts were identified as Cystoisospora spp. and were found mainly in mongooses (28.6%) (Supplementary Material Table 1). Oocysts of the zoonotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii were detected in two samples (0.3%) from mongoose. Further information of parasites found within the samples of the

Carnivora are shown in Table 2.