Objetivo: detectar Leishmania sp. en piel de cola Rattus rattus a través técnicas reacción cadena la polimerasa. Material y Método: Se analizaron 45 muestras del área urbana ciudad Corrientes, Argentina. La detección sp se realizó mediante PCR anidada. Resultados: En primera ronda amplificación detectó ADN 22 procesadas (49%) 14 segunda (31%). Conclusiones: Estos resultados contribuyen aumentar...

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RESEARCH ARTICLE ISSN 2250-1770 Study on zoonotic cestodes of commensal rats Shashi Kiran, Rashmi and *Kanika Solanki Veterinary Parasitology Lab, Zoology, D.A.V. (PG) College,S.G.R.R Medical college Dehradun-248 001, India *Corresponding author: [email protected] Abstract A study on the prevalence of cestodes in three species of rats, R. rattus, R.norvegicus and M. musculus revealed 36...

Murine typhus, an acute febrile illness caused by Rickettsia typhi, is distributed worldwide. Mainly transmitted by the fleas of rodents, it is associated with cities and ports where urban rats (Rattus rattus and Rattus norvegicus) are abundant. In the United States, cases are concentrated in suburban areas of Texas and California. Contrary to the classic rat-flea-rat cycle, the most important ...

BACKGROUND The possibility that a multi-host wildlife reservoir is responsible for maintaining transmission of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis causing human cutaneous and mucocutaneous leishmaniasis is tested by comparative analysis of infection progression and infectiousness to sandflies in rodent host species previously shown to have high natural infection prevalences in both sylvatic or/an...

In rodents, the variable coding sequence (VCS) multigene family displays extensive evolutionary divergence in the protein-coding region. While certain VCS genes coding for proline-rich proteins (hPR-PB, mMSG1, rPR-VB1) are conserved in primates and rodents, others seem to be specific to certain genera. This appears to be the case for the Rattus genes forming the A-subclass. This subclass is com...

The presence of naturally portacaval shunts has been investigated in the vasculature of normal and Schistosoma mansoni-infected Rattus rattus. Using the technique of injecting Polystyrene microspheres in the superior mesenteric vein, we demonstrated that the presence of adult schistosomes in the lungs of R. rattus was not due to an innate anomaly of the rat vasculature but resulted from the for...

A great deal of information concerning the Malayan rats (Muridae, genus Rattus Fischer) exists in the literature. However there is no report on the karyotype of these rats. Karyotype information of wild rats in other parts of the world exists, but is scanty. Makino (1942, 1943, 1949b, 1952c) studied six species of Rattus found in Japan. Most other studies have been confined to Rattus norvegicus...

BACKGROUND Zoonotic Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (ZCL) is endemic in many parts of Iran. Recently its incidence is considerable in different parts of Jahrom district, in Fars Province, southern Iran. The aims of our study were to investigate the prevalence of leishmania infection, and identify and characterize the Leishmania species present, among the rodents by molecular methods in a new endemic fo...