First record of cystic echinococcosis in free-ranging baboons,<i>Papio hamadrysas</i>, in Saudi Arabia

Ghandour, A. M.; Zahid, N. Z.; Banaja, A. A.; Kamal, K.; Boug, Ahmed

doi:10.1080/00034983.1995.11812958

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“…The dwarf tapeworm Rodentolepis ( = Hymenolepis ) nana (von Siebold, 1852) (Cestoda: Hymenolepididae) is a common parasite of rodents, humans and other primates (Baer & Tenora, 1970; Ghandour et al , 1995; Melo et al , 1997). How horizontal parasite transmission among vertebrate hosts might contribute to survival in the wild is still not fully elucidated.…”

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Experimental infection and adaptation ofRodentolepis nanato the Mongolian jirdMeriones unguiculatus

Vianna

Melo

2007

J. Helminthol.

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A mouse-derived strain of Rodentolepis ( = Hymenolepis) nana was transferred to the Mongolian jird Meriones unguiculatus. It was found that M. unguiculatus has low susceptibility to R. nana mouse isolates. Likewise, adaptation of the parasite to jird hosts, in the absence of dexamethasone treatment, was not demonstrable, at least during ten-passage trials. Nevertheless, the parasite was able to establish, grow and develop to gravid adults in M. unguiculatus treated daily with dexamethasone. Prepatent periods in dexamethasone-treated jirds in ten-passage series ranged from 10 to 17 days post-infection (DPI), the average being 12 days, and the patent periods lasted from 18 to 30 DPI, with an average of 25 days. The population pattern of faecal egg output in immunosuppressed jirds suggests that under a daily dexamethasone treatment protocol, the parasite is able to maintain egg production as long as treatment is sustained.

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