Title of article :
PREVALENCE OF SOME HELMINTHS IN RODENTS CAPTURED FROM DIFFERENT CITY STRUCTURES INCLUDING POULTRY FARMS AND HUMAN POPULATION OF FAISALABAD, PAKISTAN
Author/Authors :
A. RAFIQUE، نويسنده , , S. A. RANA، نويسنده , , H. A. KHAN AND A. SOHAIL، نويسنده ,
Issue Information :
روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2009
Pages :
4
From page :
141
To page :
144
Abstract :
The aim of the present study was to investigate prevalence of zoonotic helminths from human, Rattus rattus (R. rattus), Rattus norvegicus (R. norvegicus) and Mus musculus of eight different structures, namely grain shops in grain market, departmental stores, railway godowns, food processing plants (bakeries), poultry farms, houses in kachi-abadies, houses in departmental colonies and posh residences and banglows in Faisalabad city. All the structures were sampled for 2 months each and completed in 16 months. Highest prevalence (70%) of Vsmpirolepis spp. was observed in R. rattus sampled from poultry farms, which was significantly higher (P<0.05) than the prevalence of all the helminths recovered from other structures. Hymenolepis nana (H. nana) was observed in 60% of the sampled Mus musculus collected from kachi-abadies, which was significantly higher (P<0.05) than all other structures studies for H. nana, except R. rattus from kachi-abadies (55%) and R. norvegicus from grain shops in grain market (55%). The rodentʹs endo-parasites viz., Hymenolepis nana, Teania taenaeformis, Entrobius spps and Trichuiris spps observed in R. rattus, R. norvegicus and M. musculus at different percentages were also recorded in human stool samples with an incidence of 48, 21, 76 and 10%, respectively.
Journal title :
Pakistan Veterinary Journal
Serial Year :
2009
Journal title :
Pakistan Veterinary Journal
Record number :
677632
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