The effect of infection with the pinworm (
Syphacia muris) on rat growth.
Syphacia obvelata, susceptibility of BALB /c/BIOU and C57BL/6/BIOU inbred mice and BIOU: NMRI outbred mice
(Trematoda: Digenea) in the small intestine; four adult Gallegoides arfaai in the small intestine and six metacestodes of Taenia parva (Cestoda) in the abdominal cavity; one Mastophorus muris in the stomach, six
Syphacia stroma in the small intestine, seven Trichurs muris and three
Syphacia frederici (Nematoda), the two latter species in the caecum.
La comunidad parasitaria de Akodon montensis estuvo constituida por Tapironema coronatum, Stilestrongylus aculeata, Trichofreitasia lenti, Angiostrongylus morerai,
Syphacia carlitosi, Trichuris navonae, Eucolues sp.
The evaluation of the stool samples revealed the presence of the cestode Hymenolepis diminuta (Figure 1) in both rodent species, the nematodes
Syphacia obvelata and Aspiculuris tetraptera (Figure 2) in Mus musculus and the cysts of the enterocommensal Entamoeba coli in Rattus rattus.
akodontis, and the nematodes Angiostrongylus lenzi, Litomosoides silvai and
Syphacia carlitosi are the species with higher biovolume, while in A.
Comentarios: En Mexico, el genero
Syphacia se ha encontrado parasitando a P.
Debido a las dimensiones del huevo observado y apoyado en la dieta de los individuos, existe la posibilidad de confusion con nematodos de la familia Oxyuridae, generos
Syphacia o Aspiculuris de alta incidencia en bioterios [10].
Redescription of
Syphacia venteli Travassos, 1937 (Nematoda: Oxyuridae) from Nectomys squamipes in Argentina and Brazil and description of a new species of
Syphacia from Melanomys caliginosus in Colombia.