Potential Helminth Infections in Humans from Pet or Laboratory Mice and Hamsters

Zoonoses and Other Human Health Hazards

“…A. RESERVOIR AND INCIDENCE Although this parasite occurs in the mouse intestine, it is more commonly associated with rats and is especially common in wild Norway (Rattus norvegicus) and black (Rattus rattus) rats throughout the world (Faust and Russell 1970;Stone and Manwell 1966;Wardle and McLeod 1952 (Voge and Heyneman 1957). Larval development in Tribolium sp.…”

Zoonoses and Other Human Health Hazards

“…No menfion is made of the method of collecfion of the feces, whether the feces could have been contaminated with murine feces or with the parasite and/or eggs. The only other report is an unpublished finding of S. muris eggs in the feces of two children and two rhesus monkeys, cited in a personal letter from Dr. E. C. Faust of Tulane University, dated January 6, 1965 (Stone and Manwell, 1966). Both of these cases may therefore be examples of spuri ous parasitism, but definitive information for that conclusion is lacking.…”

Syphacia sp. (Nematoda: Oxyuridae) in coprolites of Kerodon rupestris Wied, 1820 (Rodentia: Caviidae) from 5,300 years BP in northeastern Brazil

“…Direct-route infection occurs by ingestion of the eggs. They are readily found in laboratory rodents (Van der Gulden 1967, Baker 1998, Pinto et al 2001) because of cage stocking density and improper sanitary conditions, which favour the transmission mechanism (Stone & Manwell 1966, Michels et al 2006, Taylor 2010). …”

“…There are recorded cases of human infection by Syphacia obvelata (Riley 1919) and Syphacia muris (Stone & Manwell 1966) in laboratory technicians (Taylor 2010). There are also records of S. obvelata eggs being found in mummified human bodies from Nubia dated at 700-300 years BP (Harter 2003).…”