Five species of skin mites from Psorergatidae family have been found in four rodent species (Apodemus flavicollis, A. sylvaticus, Mus musculus, Myodes glareolus) coming from northern part of Poland. Three species (Psorergates microti, P. musculinus, P. simplex) appeared to be new ones for the fauna of Poland. Moreover A. sylvaticus and M. glareolus are a new hosts for P. apodemi, P. muricola, P...

BACKGROUND Wild rodents are suitable for monitoring environmental pollution and exposure risk assessment for people living in contaminated areas. The content of selected risk elements in the femora of bank vole (Myodes glareolus), yellow-necked mouse (Apodemus flavicollis) and wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus) was estimated from the Kolíňany area of Slovakia, which is characterized by a high deg...

The co-evolution between hosts and parasites has long been recognized as a fundamental driver of macro-evolutionary patterns of diversification. The effect of co-differentiation on parasite diversification is, however, often confounded by underlying geographic patterns of host distribution. In order to disentangle the confounding effects of allopatric versus host speciation, the mitochondrial c...

The presence of granulocytic ehrlichiae was demonstrated by PCR in Ixodes ricinus ticks and wild small mammals in Switzerland in two areas of endemicity for bovine ehrlichiosis. Six ticks (three females and three nymphs) (1.4%) of 417 I. ricinus ticks collected by flagging vegetation contained ehrlichial DNA. A total of 201 small mammals from five species, wood mouse (Apodemus sylvaticus), yell...

The contribution of woodmice (Apodemus sylvaticus), yellow-necked mice (Apodemus flavicollis) and bank voles (Clethrionomys glareolus) was compared in a focus of Lyme borreliosis in Switzerland during a 7 months' study. All three species of mice and one species of shrews (Sorex araneus) were shown parasitized by infected Ixodes ricinus immatures. About 14% of larvae and 50% of nymphs collected ...

BACKGROUND To determine the prevalence and intensity of helminths and their zoonotic importance in small rodents inhabiting in the suburban areas of Hamadan City, Iran. METHODS The present survey was conducted on the helminth infections of two species of rodents Apodemus sylvaticus (n=60) and Mus musculus(n=72) in the suburban areas of Hamadan City during 2010-2012. Rodents were collected and...

This study compares the colonisation patterns of the field mouse Apodemus sylvaticus (Muridae) and its parasite Heligmosomoides polygyrus (Heligmosomoidea) in 8 Western Mediterranean islands. Respectively 690 bp and 501 bp of the mitochondrial cytochrome b gene were sequenced in 44 H. polygyrus and 49 A. sylvaticus. The results reveal the congruence between both species’ insular Mediterranean c...