SUMMARY Gastrointestinal helminths of Norway rat (Rattus norvegicus) from the Belgrade area were studied as a part of a wider ecological research of rats in Serbia (data on the distribution, population ecology, economic and epizoothiological-epidemiological importance, and density control). Rats were captured from May 2005 to July 2009 at both urban and suburban-rural sites. Of a total of 302 t...

AIM The present study was undertaken to study the pathology and control of sudden unexplained mortality in wistar rats. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was conducted in a colony of 25 male wistar rats where there was mortality of nine rats. The dead rats were subjected to thorough post-mortem examination and necropsy samples were processed for hematoxylin and eosin staining for histopatholog...

TENORA, F., BARUš, V., PROKEš, M.: Discussion to several tapeworm species from the families Hymenolepididae, Anoplocephalidae and Davaineidae parasitizing rodents and man. Acta univ. agric. et silvic. Mendel. Brun., 2004, LII, No. 1, pp. 23-28 With the more recent knowledge, the hypothesis by Joyeux and Baer (1929) is consulted: “... most of rarer species of tapeworms occurring in man are proba...

1. A differential incorporation of 14C-glucose into two distinct molecular weight fractions of glycogen from the tapeworm Hymenolepis diminuta has been observed. Changes in these labeling patterns as a function of the glycogen level have been examined. 2. After incubation of Hymenolepis diminuta in media containing 14C-glucose under steady state conditions of glycogen metabolism, the specific a...

Males and females often differ in their susceptibility and exposure to infection. Thus, they may also differ in their ability to avoid infection. The beetle, Tenebrio molitor, risks infection with cysticercoids when ingesting rat feces containing eggs of the tapeworm, Hymenolepis diminuta. Previous studies demonstrated that beetles sometimes prefer infective feces suggesting that the tapeworm i...

“Back to nature” is an increased demand nowadays, for using plants in therapy “instead of using synthetic drugs that may have adverse effects. Grape seed extract (Proanthcyanidins) and Selenium possesses a wide array of pharmacological and biochemical actions. Hymenolepiasis and Passulurus infections are considered as common health problems worldwide. In the present study, Grape seed extract an...

Immunosuppressants have been extensively used to increase the susceptibility of various laboratory animals to several species of nematodes (Campbell , 1963; 1968; Campbell & Collette, 1962 ; Di Netta , Katz & Campbell , 1972 ; Miller, 1966; Mougeot & Lancastre, 1970 ; Parker, 1961; Ritterson, 1959 ; Wiest, 1972; Wakelin, 1970). Only a few of these compounds have been used to increase susceptibi...