The present study has investigated the cytoprotective effects of chlorophyllin in tobacco induced chromosomal aberrations in bone marrow of rats. Chromosomal aberrations per cell and percent aberrant cells were observed to calculate genotoxic action of tobacco. Oral treatment with different doses of chln was able to reduce chromosomal aberrations significantly at the pre-treatment level and con...

Toxoplasma gondii is obligate coccidian zoonotic parasite. Felidae family is definitive and wide ranges of warm-blooded vertebrates are intermediate hosts for the parasite. Rodents are measured as an important source of T. gondii infection for the definitive host. Thus, this study aimed to investigate Toxoplasm infection in rodents of Ahvaz district, southwest of Iran. A total of 100 rodents (7...

A total of 4,281 rodents, belonging to 20 species, was collected from three villages in Chiangrai Province, northern Thailand, from January 1994 to December 2001. The predominant species were Rattus rattus, R. losea and Bandicota indica, accounting for 96% of the total. More than 135,000 chigger mites were removed from wild rodents of which 1% were identified as Leptotrombidium chiangraiensis, ...

Rats are considered the principal maintenance hosts of Leptospira. The objectives of this study were isolation and identification of Leptospira serovars circulating among urban rat populations in Kuala Lumpur. Three hundred urban rats (73% Rattus rattus and 27% R. norvegicus) from three different sites were trapped. Twenty cultures were positive for Leptospira using dark-field microscopy. R. ra...

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...