Some changes of the haematogical parameters of the peripheral blood and in the morphological and physiological aspects of testis were determined on 2,7,15, 30 and 45 days after the treatment of adult male wild Indian house rat, Rattus rattus with methylmethane sulphonate (MMS), at a single dose of 20 mg/kg body weight. The number of total erythrocytes and leucocytes, the frequency of differenti...

Background: Cryptosporidiosis is a zoonotic disease with public health importance, especially for individuals with weak immune system, such as children, elderly people and immune suppressed ones. Evaluation of the prevalence of Cryptosporidium in wild rodents such as wild brown rats could help to establish an epidemiological map of Cryptosporidiosis. The aim of the current study was to assess t...

rats are capable to harbor various pathogens, among which certain species of zo-onotic parasites are included. a long-term detection of parasite fauna of rats has sporadically been carried out in iran. abundance of these vertebrate pests is of great importance as regards public health issue. the present paper is focused on a digenean trematode plagiorchis muris, obtained during a comprehensive ...

Several aspects of the ecology of Rattus exufans are revie:ved in an effort to collate a large proportion of the widely scattered hterature relatillg. to the species. Subspecific relationships are discuss~d to illustrate the early. Co~fu~lOn. regarding taxonomic position. Literature covenng R. exula~s.geog~aphicdistnb~tlOn, habitat, nutrition, reproduction, movements, and competltlon With other...

The most serious known rodent pests in agricultural irrigated land are: Rattus rattus, Arvicanthis niloticus and Acomys sp. Occasionally there are rodent outbreaks in agricultural plantations. The changing agro-ecosystem in the present and future agricultural plantations is expected to affect the status of the following potential rodent pest species: Spalax ehrenbergi aegyptiacus, Nesokia indic...

Abstract Norway rats ( Rattus norvegicus ) are considered one of the most significant vertebrate pests globally, because their impacts on human and animal health. There legal moral obligations to minimise wildlife management welfare, yet there few data relative welfare rat trapping baiting methods used in UK with which inform decisions. Two stakeholder workshops were facilitated assess six leth...

Rats are capable to harbor various pathogens, among which certain species of zoonotic parasites are included. A long-term detection of parasite fauna of rats has sporadically been carried out in Iran. Abundance of these vertebrate pests is of great importance as regards public health issue. The present paper is focused on a digenean trematode Plagiorchis muris, obtained during a comprehensive s...

Infant Syrian golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) do not exhibit endogenous heat production before 3 weeks of age and do not huddle effectively during cold exposure, gaining little thermoregulatory benefit from the presence of multiple littermates. In contrast, infant Norway rats (Rattus norvegicus) produce heat endogenously and are effective at maintaining elevated body temperatures by hudd...