Australian Wildlife Health Network

Forum : Diseases and disease agents

Name	Date Of Event	Posted	Details
T Grillo	07/09/2010	07/09/2010	Wombats and domestic livestock as potential vectors of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in an agricultural riparian area Borchard, P. et al., (2010) Wombats and domestic livestock as potential vectors of Cryptosporidium and Giardia in an agricultural riparian area. Australian Journal of Zoology 58(3) 150–153 doi:10.1071/ZO10026. http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/ZO10026 Abstract: “We assessed the distribution of wombat scats and cattle pats on streambanks and screened them for the presence of Giardia and Cryptosporidium. ………………………We were unable to find any Cryptosporidium species or genotypes known to infect humans in either wombat or cattle faeces. One cattle sample contained Cryptosporidium bovis, a cattle-specific organism unlikely to be zoonotic. Giardia duodenalis (Assemblage E), a non-zoonotic pathogen, was detected in four cattle samples, but no wombat samples tested positive for Giardia. Our results suggest that while wombats represent a low-pathogen risk there is a need for co
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