title: Experimental Toxocara cati infection in gerbils and rats.
abstract: Mongolian gerbils and Wistar rats were inoculated orally with 240 and 2,500 Toxocara cati embryonated eggs, respectively, to evaluate the larval recovery in different tissues and organs, such as the liver, lungs, heart, kidney, and skeletal muscles after 5, 30, 49, 70, and 92 days post-infection (PI). Larval recovery rates were 1.7-30.0% in Mongolian gerbils on days 5-92 PI and 0.2-3.8% in rats on the same days. These results indicate that Mongolian gerbils and Wistar rats are suitable experimental paratenic hosts for the study of neurological toxocariasis as well as visceral toxocariasis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Parasitology and Mycology, Lorestan University of Medical Sciences, Khorram Abad, Iran. zibaeim@sums.ac.ir
authors.forename: Mohammad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zibaei
authors.forename: Seyed Mahmoud
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Sadjjadi
authors.forename: Shoji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Uga
mesh_terms: D000825:Animal Structures / Q000469:parasitology; D000818:Animals; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D005849:Gerbillinae; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D008297:Male; D008853:Microscopy; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D014119:Toxocara / Q000472:pathogenicity*; D014120:Toxocariasis / Q000469:parasitology* / Q000473:pathology*