Dl. Obendorf, EXPERIMENTAL INFECTIONS WITH THE TASMANIAN ISOLATE OF TRICHINELLA-PSEUDOSPIRALIS USING A NONENZYMATIC RECOVERY TECHNIQUE, Journal of the Helminthological Society of Washington, 60(2), 1993, pp. 266-268
Laboratory rats and mice, cats, brushtail possums (Trichosurus vulpecu
la), and 2 species of raptor (marsh harrier, Circus aeruginosus, and b
rown falcon, Falco berigora) were either infected orally with larvae o
f Trichinella pseudospiralis isolated by a non-enzymatic technique or
by feeding infected muscle tissue. Muscle from a naturally infected Ta
smanian devil (Sarcophilus harrisii) and an eastern quoll (Dasyurus vi
verrinus) resulted in infections in cats, rats, and marsh harriers. Si
milarly, larvae derived from feline muscle were infective for mice and
a brown falcon. Infected muscle tissue from marsh harriers was also i
nfective for the same species. The reproductive capacity index (RCI) f
or rats fed larvae from an eastern quoll was 34.5, whereas the RCI for
mice infected with larvae derived from a cat was 31.6.