EXPERIMENTAL-INFECTION IN CHICKENS WITH LARVAE OF BAYLISASCARIS-TRANSFUGA (NEMATODA, ASCARIDOIDEA)

Authors
PAPINI R CAVICCHIO P CASAROSA L
Citation
R. Papini et al., EXPERIMENTAL-INFECTION IN CHICKENS WITH LARVAE OF BAYLISASCARIS-TRANSFUGA (NEMATODA, ASCARIDOIDEA), Folia parasitologica, 40(2), 1993, pp. 141-143
Citations number
14
Categorie Soggetti
Parasitiology
Journal title
Folia parasitologica → ACNP
ISSN journal
00155683
Volume
40
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
141 - 143
Database
ISI
SICI code
0015-5683(1993)40:2<141:EICWLO>2.0.ZU;2-S
Abstract
The larvae of Baylisascaris transfuga (Rudolphi, 1819) were able to pe netrate the liver, lungs, carcass and brain of infected chickens, but a great number of larvae accumulated in the liver. No clinical signs w ere seen. Birds may serve as paratenic hosts of the parasite, but B. t ransfuga seems not to be a possible agent of avian cerebrospinal nemat odosis.