Urban Dog Parks as Sources of Canine Parasites: Contamination Rates and Pet Owner Behaviours in Lisbon, Portugal

Figure 2

Some of the eggs, cysts, and oocysts detected in fresh faecal samples collected from dog parks using Centrifugal Sedimentation Flotation technique and faecal smears stained by the modified Ziehl-Neelsen technique. (a) Morulated hookworm egg; (b) Cystoisospora spp. unsporulated oocyst; (c) nonembryonated Toxascaris leonina egg; (d) nonembryonated Toxocara canis egg; (e) Giardia spp. cysts in faecal smear (arrows); (f) Cryptosporidium spp. oocysts in faecal smear (arrows).

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