Biology_of_Mustelids_Vol_1.pdf

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Subsequent experiments established that other intermediate hosts
for S. nasicola, apart from the slug mentioned, may include the molluscs
Zenobiella rubiginosa (A.Schm) and Cochlicopa lubrica Mull.
Since mustelids are invaded by the nematode S. nasicola after
eating ground molluscs (loricate and non-loricate), it is essential to wage
a vigorous struggle against molluscs to protect valuable furred animals
from infection with skrjabingylosis.
On fUr farms the molluscs must be
destroyed by the methods devised by Prof. A.M. Petrov and V.G. Gagarin
(1937)(a).
On furred animal breeding farms and in zoological parks, mink,
martens and other mustelids must be kept in cages inaccessible to molluscs
which might enter and be eaten.
A very useful method to achieve this, is
to set the cages on a raised netted floor.
Several hundreds of carcasses
of farm mink and martens, which had been reared on fur farms in cages on
raised netted floors, were dissected in the slaughter period of 1950-53;
none contained the parasite~.
nasicola in their frontal sinuses.
(a) Reference not given, but translation included in this volume. _ Ed.