BACKGROUND Rodents are an important source of zoonotic diseases for human. The aim of this study was to determine the infectivity of rodents with intestinal helminths in North Khorasan Province, Iran. METHODS One hundred and thirteen rodents were collected using different collection methods such as kill and live traps, digging of their burrow, filling of their hiding places with water and han...

This approach intends to add new data on the helminthes parasites of laboratory mice. It has been investigated the anthelmintic activity of Solanum lycocarpum (Solanaceae) extracts against Aspiculuris tetraptera in mice naturally infected. According to the analysis of the results it was observed and an extremely significant difference between TM and C (from 5.64 ± 3.33 to 1.56 ± 3.16). It was p...

Antigenic stimulation of athymic mice on the BALB/c back ground by infection with the pinworms Aspiculuris tetraptera and Syphacia obvelata or by xenografts of human tumors induced a proliferation of Tand B-lymphocytes in spleen and lymph nodes and occasional germinal center formation. The proliferating T-lymphocytes showed greater fluorescence per cell than the Thy 1-positive cells from unstim...

Rodents, as mice and rats are the most common laboratory animals used in research and testing. They are seldom investigated for autochthonous ecto- and endoparasites prior their utilization in the experiments. Helminth parasites can alter the interpretation of final results. Pinworms commonly infecting laboratory rodents include mainly the mice pinworms Syphacia obvelata and Aspiculuris tetrapt...

background: in order to verify the infectivity of rodents with endoparasites in germi (dashte-mogan, arda­bil province) the current study was undertaken. methods: using live traps, 177 rodents were trapped during 2005-2007. in field laboratory, all rodents were bled prior to autopsy, frozen at -20°c, and shipped to the school of public health, tehran university of medical sciences, iran. in par...