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Hymenolepis muris-sylvaticae in laboratory rodents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

C. Van Haeren
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Zoophysiology, State University of Ghent, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium
P. H. De Rycke
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Zoophysiology, State University of Ghent, K. L. Ledeganckstraat 35, B-9000 Ghent, Belgium

Abstract

The establishment, growth, survival and distribution ol Hymenolepis muris-sylvaticae m different laboratory animals (Wistar rats, golden hamsters, CFLP and NMRI mice) after oral infection and surgical transplantation were determined.

Worms that establish in CFLP and NMRI mice grow exponentially but are rejected at different times p.i. depending on the strain of mice and mode of infection. Only in golden hamsters will H. muris-sylvaticae develop to a mature worm; in rats there is no growth at all. Worms of all sizes are found in the posterior half of the small intestine in rats and both strains of mice; in hamsters the worms are recovered more anteriorly.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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