Hostname: page-component-848d4c4894-pftt2 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-06-07T18:01:51.030Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Pathogenicity of Nematodirus battus in Weaned and Unweaned Laboratory Rabbits

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 November 2009

G. J. Gallie
G. J. Gallie
Affiliation:
Parasitology Department, Moredun Research Institute Gilmerton, Edinburgh, 9
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

The dosing of rabbits with 300 000 or 500 000 larvae of Nematodirus battus produced. pathogenic effects in some rabbits similar to nematodiriasis in lambs. The clinical symptoms observed were diarrhoea, listlessness, anorexia and weight loss. Fourth-stage larvae were responsible for the onset of diarrhoea about one week after infection but immature fifth-stage worms and adult parasites may also have been pathogenic. Several of the clinically affected rabbits died, the others usually recovered during the fourth week of infection. There was no direct relationship between the occurrence of clinical symptoms and the size of the worm populations recovered at death or slaughter.

Comparison of two groups of weaned and unweaned rabbits showed that suckled rabbits were less susceptible to the establishment of N. battus infections and possibly to the effects of parasitism.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 47 , Issue 4 , December 1973 , pp. 377 - 388
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1973

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

REFERENCES

Baxter, J. T., 1957.—“The effects on lambs of infection by the intestinal parasite Nematodirus.” Res. exp. Rec. Alinist. Agric. Nth. Ire., 6, 45–51.Google Scholar
Davies, S. F. M., Joyner, L. P. and Kendall, S. B., 1963.—“Coccidiosis.” London: Oliver and Boyd.Google Scholar
Gallie, G. J., 1972.—“Development of the parasitic stages of Nematodirus battus in the laboratory rabbit.” Parasitology, 64, 293–304.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Gallie, G. J., 1973.—“The development of acquired resistance and age resistance to Nematodirus battus in the laboratory rabbit.” J. Helminth. 47, 369–376.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Gibson, T. E., 1959.—“The survival of the free-living stages of Nematodirus spp. on pasture herbage.” Vet. Rec., 71, 362–366.Google Scholar
Gibson, T. E., and Everett, G., 1963.—“The development of resistance by sheep to the nematode Nematodirus battus.” Br. vet. J., 119, 214–218.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Kates, K. C. and Turner, J. H., 1953.—“Experimental studies on the patho genicity of Nematodirus spathiger a trichostrongylid parasite of sheep.” Am. J. vet. Res., 14, 72–81.Google Scholar
Kingsbury, P. A., 1953.—“Nematodirus infestation-a probable cause of losses amongst lambs.” Vet. Rec., 65, 167–169.Google Scholar
Rowlands, D. T. and Probert, A. J., 1972.—“Some pathological changes in young lambs experimentally infected with Nematodirus battus.” Res. vet. Sci., 13, 323–329CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Seghetti, L. and Senger, C. M., 1958.—“Experimental infections in lambs with Nematodirus spathiger.” Am. J. vet. Res., 19, 642–644.Google ScholarPubMed
Spector, W. S., 1950.—“Handbook of biological data.” Philadelphia: W. B. Saunders Co.Google Scholar
Stefanski, W. and Przyjalkowski, Z., 1965.—“Effect of alimentary tract microorganisms on the development of Trichinella spiralis in mice. Part I.” Expl. Parasit., 16, 167–173.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Stefanski, W. and Przyjalkowski, Z., 1966.—“Effect of alimentary tract microorganisms on the development of Trichinella spirals in mice. Part II.” Expl. Parasit., 18, 92–98.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Thomas, R. J. and Stevens, A. J., 1956.—“Some observations on Nematodirus disease in Northumberland and Durham.” Vet. Rec., 68, 471–475.Google Scholar