Small wild mammals naturally infected with Schistosoma mansoni

NOTES AND INFORMATION

Small wild mammals naturally infected with Schistosoma mansoni

PRELIMINAR NOTE

Luiz Candido de Souza Dias

Setor de Parasitologia do Instituto de Biologia da Universidade Estadual de Campinas – Caixa Postal, 1170 – Campinas, S. Paulo – Brasil.

Cavia aperea aperea (Erxleben, 1777), Holochilus brasiliensis leucogaster (Brandt, 1827) and Lutreolina sp., small wild mammals, captured in the municipalities of Taubaté, Americana and Paulinia, State of S. Paulo, Brazil, were found to be naturally infected with Schistosoma mansoni. Viable eggs of the parasite were detected in the feces of both Holochilus b. leucogaster and Lutreolina sp. As the complete cycle was obtained, the schistosome is now being maintained at laboratory conditions. Ecological, pathological and parasitological researches are in progress.

Uniterms:Schistosoma mansoni*; Wild mammals reservoirs.

Publication Dates

• Publication in this collection
  13 Sept 2006
• Date of issue
  June 1972