Infectivity of Cryptosporidium muris directly isolated from the murine stomach for various laboratory animals

Aydin Y., Ozkul I.

VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY, vol.66, no.3-4, pp.257-262, 1996 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Publication Type: Article / Article
  • Volume: 66 Issue: 3-4
  • Publication Date: 1996
  • Doi Number: 10.1016/s0304-4017(96)01007-2
  • Journal Name: VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY
  • Journal Indexes: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Page Numbers: pp.257-262
  • Keywords: Cryptosporidium muris, laboratory animals, experimental infection, ABOMASAL CRYPTOSPORIDIOSIS, CATTLE, MICE
  • Ankara University Affiliated: No

Abstract

Oocysts of Cryptosporidium muris, directly isolated from the stomach of experimentally infected laboratory mice were orally inoculated into rats, gerbils, guinea pigs, dogs, and rabbits. Weaned rats developed patent C. muris infection as evidenced by the endogenous stages in gastric glands and oocyst shedding 10-17 days later, No signs of clinical illness or macroscopic findings were detected in mice and rats. Laboratory raised suckling rabbits, guinea pigs, gerbils and dogs fed C. muris rarely developed patent infections and they were considered not a true host for C. muris.