Hostname: page-component-78c5997874-dh8gc Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-05T08:31:47.197Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

On Wild Birds as Transmitters of Helminth Parasites to Domestic Stock

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

Phyllis A Clapham
Phyllis A Clapham
Affiliation:
Research Assistant, Institute of Agricultural Parasitology, St. Albans.
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Evidence is put forward to show that eggs of helminth parasites are being constantly re-introduced to land and transferred from one pasture to another. In this way land which has not previously carried poultry for years may yet carry viable eggs which can, and do infect chickens when they are introduced to such runs. The starling and rook are probably important transmitting agents as these congregate among poultry at feeding times. Rabbits and other small rodents may also be carriers but no evidence for this has been looked for yet. Young poultry stock may also become infected with helminths which are normally parasites of wild birds but such parasites, except one Acanthocephalan, have not yet been recovered from or transmitted to older birds experimentally.

Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , March 1940 , pp. 39 - 44
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1940

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Klee, R., 1903.—“Les corbeaux agents propagateurs des epidemies des volailles.” Rec. Med. vet., X 8th Ser. (18), 604. (W.L. 17759.)Google Scholar
Lewis, E. A., 1925.—“Starlings as distributors of Gapes.” J. Helminth., III (2), 81–82. (W.L. 11224b.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Lewis, E. A., 1926.—“Starlings as distributors of Gapes.” J. Helminth., IV (2), 43–48. (W. L. 11224b.)Google Scholar
Taylor, E. L., 1928.—“Syngamus trachea from the starling transferred to the chicken, and some interesting physiological variation observed.” Ann. trop. Med. Parasit., XXII (3), 307–318. (W.L. 1063.)CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Taylor, E. L., 1930.—“Gapes (Syngamiasis)—the relation of wild birds to the disease among chickens.” World's Poult. Cong. Papers. Sect. C., pp. 433–438. (W.L. 24029.)Google Scholar