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A basis to extend the proof of migration routes of immature parasites inside hosts: estimated time of arrival of Nippostrongylus brasiliensis and Strongyloides ratti in the gut of the rat

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

N. R. Tindall  and
P. A. G. Wilson
N. R. Tindall
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh, Department of Zoology, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT
P. A. G. Wilson
Affiliation:
University of Edinburgh, Department of Zoology, West Mains Road, Edinburgh EH9 3JT
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Summary

The time taken for larvae of Nippostrongylus brasiliensis and a homogonic strain of Strongyloides ratti to complete their migration from the skin surface to the small intestine of the rat was estimated by a new method in which a mirror image of arrival times was created by counting mature parasites at day 8 (N. brasiliensis) or day 5 (S. ratti) in the intestines of rats that had received a single pulse of morantel tartrate by stomach tube at different times starting 10 h after skin application of exact doses of infective larvae. It was confirmed that the effect of the drug was confined to parasites in the gut, so that the kinetics of migration were unperturbed.

Keywords

migrationproofpathwaynematodeparasite
Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 100 , Issue 2 , April 1990 , pp. 275 - 280
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1990

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