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Experimental Trichinella spiralis infection in the ferret, Mustela putorius furo

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

William C. Campbell ,
Lyndia Slayton Blair ,
Fan-Yao Kung  and
Debra Vislocky Ewanciw
William C. Campbell
Affiliation:
Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, Rahway, New Jersey, USA
Lyndia Slayton Blair
Affiliation:
Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, Rahway, New Jersey, USA
Fan-Yao Kung
Affiliation:
Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, Rahway, New Jersey, USA
Debra Vislocky Ewanciw
Affiliation:
Merck Institute for Therapeutic Research, Rahway, New Jersey, USA
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Abstract

Laboratory ferrets (Mustela putorius furo) were each inoculated with 500 larvae of a strain of Trichinella spiralis that had been passaged in mice for many generations. The recovery of adult worms from ferrets on Days 4 and 7 of infection represented a mean of 32% of the inoculum, with most of the worms being in the anterior three quarters of the small intestine. Larvae subsequently became encysted in the ferret musculature, with the diaphragm alone yielding as many as 5,750 larvae upon digestion.

For comparative purposes, mice were each inoculated with 200 T. spiralis from the same batch of larvae. The recovery of adult worms from mice represented a mean of 54% of the inoculum. An abrupt decline in worm population, typical of infections in the mouse, was observed in both mouse and ferret hosts; in neither species had the decline begun on Day 7 of infection, but it had clearly begun by Day 11 and was essentially ended by Day 14.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , March 1982 , pp. 55 - 58
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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