Prevalence of Gastrointestinal Parasites in Pigs: A Preliminary Study in Tolon and Kumbungu Districts, Ghana

Table 2

Method of screening that identified the various gastrointestinal parasites.

S/N	Parasite identified	Phylum	Method of identification
			Sedimentation	Centrifugal flotation
1	Ascaris suum	Nematoda	×	✓
2	Coccidia	Apicomplexa	✓	×
3	Globocephalus urosubulatus	Nematoda	✓	✓
4	Hyostrongylus rubidus	Nematoda	✓	✓
5	Macracanthorhynchus hirudinaceus	Acanthocephala	✓	×
6	Metastrongylus spp.	Nematoda	✓	✓
7	Oesophagostomum dentatum	Nematoda	✓	✓
8	Physocephalus sexalatus	Nematoda	✓	×
9	Stephanurus dentatus	Nematoda	×	✓
10	Strongyloides ransomi	Nematoda	✓	✓
11	Trichuris suis	Nematoda	✓	×

✓ = screening method that identified the said parasite; × = not identified.