Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-rdxmf Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-25T09:33:02.895Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Some Observations on the Behaviour of Nippostrongylus brasiliensis in different kinds of Laboratory Animals*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

H. M. Gharib
H. M. Gharib
Affiliation:
From the Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

(1) Rats and mice are specific hosts to N. brasiliensis.

(2) The life span of the parasite may reach up to 100 days in the rat but is much shorter in other experimental animals.

(3) Chickens do not become infected with this parasite.

(4) It was found that the route of migration of this parasite inside the body to the lungs was via the lymph system and not via the blood in all experimental animals.

(5) The larvae, after application to the skin, reach the lymph glands draining the site of infection, not before 12 hours ; and they reach the lungs at 18 hours after exposure to infection.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 35 , Issue 1-2 , March 1961 , pp. 109 - 114
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1961

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Gharib, H. M., 1900.—”On the migration route of the infective larvae of Nippostrongylus brasiliensis.” J. Helminth., 35, 101–108. (W.L. 11224c).Google Scholar