Worm burdens in outbred and inbred laboratory rats with morphometric data on Syphacia muris (Yamaguti, 1935) Yamaguti, 1941 (Nematoda, Oxyuroidea).
Syphacia muris worm burdens were evaluated in the rat Rattus norvegicus of the strains Wistar (outbred), Low/M and AM/2/Torr (inbred), maintained conventionally in institutional animal houses in Brazil. Morphometrics and illustration data for S. muris recovered from Brazilian laboratory rats are provided for the first time since its proposition in 1935.
Pinto
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RM
Laboratório de Helmintos Parasitos de Vertebrados, Departamento de Helmintologia, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, 21045-900, Brasil. mpinto@gene.dbbm.fiocruz.br
Gonçalves
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L
Noronha
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D
Gomes
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DC
D000818:Animals; D000830:Animals, Laboratory / Q000469:parasitology*; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D010124:Oxyuroidea / Q000166:cytology* / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats / Q000469:parasitology*