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Experimental Toxocara catiInfection in Gerbils and Rats

  • Zibaei, Mohammad (Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences) ;
  • Sadjjadi, Seyed Mahmoud (Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences) ;
  • Uga, Shoji (Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Kobe University Graduate School of Health Sciences)
  • Received : 2010.09.29
  • Accepted : 2010.11.01
  • Published : 2010.12.31
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Abstract

Mongolian gerbils and Wistar rats were inoculated orally with 240 and 2,500 Toxocara cati embryonated eggs, respectively, to evaluate the larval recovery in different tissues and organs, such as the liver, lungs, heart, kidney, and skeletal muscles after 5, 30, 49, 70, and 92 days post-infection (PI). Larval recovery rates were 1.7-30.0% in Mongolian gerbils on days 5-92 PI and 0.2-3.8% in rats on the same days. These results indicate that Mongolian gerbils and Wi star rats are suitable experimental paratenic hosts for the study of neurological toxocariasis as well as visceral toxocariasis.

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