1994
DOI: 10.1590/s0074-02761994000100007
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Abstract: The spectrum of intestinal parasites present in the Swiss Webster, C57B1/6 and DBA/2 mice strains from different animal houses was identified and prevalences compared. Three parasites were observed during the course of this study, namely the cestode Vampirolepis nana (Siebold, 1852) Spasskii, 1954 (= Hymenolepis nana) and the nematodes Aspiculuris tetraptera (Nitzsch, 1821) Schultz, 1924 and Syphacia obvelata (Rudolphi, 1802) Seurat, 1916. The scope of this investigation has been widened to also include morpho… Show more

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“…(With 1 figure) Taking into account the importance laboratory and pet animals have (Robertson et al, 2000;Pinto et al, 2001b) this investigation was scheduled to add new information to previous Brazilian reports of helminths recovered from these hosts (Pinto et al, 1994(Pinto et al, , 2001a(Pinto et al, , b, 2002. The present results are related to the study of a nematode species infecting pet shop gerbils in Brazil.…”
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“…(With 1 figure) Taking into account the importance laboratory and pet animals have (Robertson et al, 2000;Pinto et al, 2001b) this investigation was scheduled to add new information to previous Brazilian reports of helminths recovered from these hosts (Pinto et al, 1994(Pinto et al, , 2001a(Pinto et al, , b, 2002. The present results are related to the study of a nematode species infecting pet shop gerbils in Brazil.…”
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“…Although most of these infections are subclinical, they are relevant as they are able to affect the animal physiology, leading to changes in immunological, histological, nutritional, biochemical, and hematological parameters, besides affecting susceptibility to other infectious agents (Pinto et al, 1994;Bazzano et al, 2002).…”
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confidence: 99%
“…Experimental results of research performed with living laboratory animals may be affected by physiological and immunological alterations caused by environmental conditions (Baker, 1998;Weisbroth et al, 1998). The presence of infectious agents in animal house colonies represents a severe problem for biomedical research once murine parasitic agents are described as the most frequent pathogens involved in immunological and metabolic alterations in the host (Pinto et al, 1994). Considering the use of laboratory living animals as models in experimental biomedical research, the animal houses are required to have barriermaintained systems, controlled environment conditions, and periodical genetic and sanitary monitoring.…”
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“…The environments of laboratory animals are standardised in order to reduce variation in results, especially in studies performed during the development and registration pharmaceutical products and chemicals. Still little is known about the effects of environmental changes on the biological variation in experimental results (Baumans, 1998) as well as laboratory mice are seldom investigated for autochthonous ecto and endoparasites prior their use in the …… experiments (Pinto et al, 1994(Pinto et al, , 2001. The control or eradication of worm burdens in laboratory animals ensures the proper procedures in scientific research.…”
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confidence: 99%