title: [Liver capillariasis (Calodium hepaticum) in rodents from Ituri (DRC) and Dakar (Senegal)].
abstract: Human hepatic capillariosis due to Calodium hepaticum is rarely described in Africa, probably because of the lack of diagnosis tools. However, it is known that the animal reservoir is made up of rodents. During a study performed on 24 black rats (Rattus rattus) trapped in Rethy (CongoDR) and 20 Gambian pouched rats (Cricetomys gambianus) in Dakar (Senegal), macroscopic and histological hepatic lesions of capillariosis were found in 8 of these rodents (3 in Rethy and 5 in Dakar). These results led us to propose, besides hygiene measures, an epidemiologic survey of this serious parasitosis, particularly in children, in the course of serological and/or coproscopic investigations.
authors.affiliation: Unité de recherche sur les maladies infectieuses et tropicales émergentes, CNRS UMR 7278 IRD 198 INSERM U1095 Aix-Marseille Université, Faculté de médecine, 27, Bd Jean Moulin, Marseille Cedex 05, France, bernard.davoust@gmail.com.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Davoust
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: de Biasi
authors.forename: J-P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Demoncheaux
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Diatta
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pasqualini
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Piarroux
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002195:Capillaria / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015023:Democratic Republic of the Congo; D008109:Liver Diseases, Parasitic / Q000662:veterinary*; D051381:Rats / Q000469:parasitology; D012376:Rodent Diseases / Q000469:parasitology*; D012675:Senegal