[Rats and bilharziasis in Guadeloupe].
The rats in Guadeloupe (Rattus rattus and Rattus norvegicus) may play a  part in schistosomiasis in three ways: - by harbouring fertile S. mansoni, a fact which serves to increase the total population of the parasite and may eventually take part in the infestation of man; - by harbouring a great number of Ribeiroia marini, a trematode whose larval stages sterilize Biomphalaria glabrata, the vector of schistosomiasis; - simply by eating B. glabrata. The quantitative influence of these contradictory roles played by the rats upon schistosomiasis in Guadeloupe has yet to be studied.
D000818:Animals; D001700:Biomphalaria; D004199:Disease Vectors; D007814:Larva; D051381:Rats; D012550:Schistosoma mansoni / Q000254:growth & development; D012552:Schistosomiasis / Q000635:transmission*; D014200:Trematoda / Q000502:physiology; D014900:West Indies
Rats et bilharziose en Guadeloupe