| Literature DB >> 21419863 |
Toshihiro Tokiwa1, Tsunehito Harunari, Tsutomu Tanikawa, Nobuaki Akao, Nobuo Ohta.
Abstract
We collected 24 brown rats, Rattus norvegicus, in Kanagawa Prefecture in Japan and found one rat harboring a dioctophymatid nematode. A single male and a female worm were recovered from the abdominal cavity and were identified as Dioctophyme renale based on morphologic features and a BLAST DNA sequence analysis. We describe the morphological features of the adult worms and eggs from this extremely rare case of D. renale infection in a brown rat.Entities:
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Year: 2011 PMID： 21419863 DOI： 10.1016/j.parint.2011.03.003
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Parasitol Int ISSN： 1383-5769 Impact factor: 2.230