Fecal Examination

Similar methods of fecal floatation apply to pigs as they do to canine or feline medicine. An AASV publication[1] talked about using the Modified Wisconsin Sugar Centrifugal-Floatation as the best way to detect the eggs of the most common swine GI parasites. The 2 most common swine GI parasites are Ascaris suum (large roundworm) and Trichuris suis (swine whipworm). Other parasites detected on fecal float include: Strongyloides ransomi (intestinal threadworm), Oesophagostomum dentatum (nodular worm), Metastrongylus spp (lung worm), and Hyostrongylus rubidus (red stomach worm). Stephanurus dentatus (kidney worm) is only detected in urine samples.