Concurrent infection of Gnathostoma spinigerum and Ancylostoma braziliense in a tigress

Postmortem examination of a 19 years old female tiger in the Vandaloor Zoo, Chennai, revealed three nodules with worms protruding in the serosal surface of stomach towards pylorus. The nematode was identified as Gnathostoma spinigernm. There was one big and two small nodules with four worms opening at the mucosal surface of stomach. Large number of worms (473 worms with a sex ratio of 1:3) were also collected from small intestine. They were identified as Ancylostoma braziliense.