STUDIES ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND LIFE CYCLE OF DIPTALONEMA VITAE IN RODENTS OF ASSIUT PROVINCE EGYPT

FAHMY, M.A.M.; ARAFA, M.S.; KHALIFA, R.M.A.; . EL-BADR, A.M; MONIB, M.E.M.

doi:10.21608/avmj.1984.190892

STUDIES ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND LIFE CYCLE OF DIPTALONEMA VITAE IN RODENTS OF ASSIUT PROVINCE EGYPT

Document Type : Research article

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M.A.M. FAHMY
M.S. ARAFA
R.M.A. KHALIFA
A.M . EL-BADR
M.E.M. MONIB

10.21608/avmj.1984.190892

Abstract

Adult females of Diptalonema vitae were found in subcutancous tissue of one Rattus rattus frugivorus and Rattus norvigicus caught near Assiut city. Incidence of infection was low (0.45% and 1.6% respectively). Unsheathed microfilariae. were described from peripheral blood of naturally infected rodents. Trial to explore the life cycle of the parasite yielded filariform larvae in soft ticks (Argas persicus persicus), 10-12 days after feeding on heavily infected rats. Trials to complete the life cycle in laboratory rats failed.

STUDIES ON THE MORPHOLOGY AND LIFE CYCLE OF DIPTALONEMA VITAE IN RODENTS OF ASSIUT PROVINCE EGYPT

Volume 12.1, Issue 23May 1984Pages 78-81

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Volume 12.1, Issue 23
May 1984
Pages 78-81