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Shedding of gravid proglottids and destrobilation in experimental infections of foxes with Mesocestoides leptothylacus Loos-Frank, 1980 (Cestoda)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 June 2009

Brigitte Loos-Frank
Brigitte Loos-Frank
Affiliation:
Abteilung Parasitologie, Universität Hohenheim, 7000 Stuttgart 70, Federal Republic of Germany
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Abstract

The implications of the confused taxonomy of the genus Mesocestoides and the misuse of the name M. lineatus are described. In Southwest Germany rodents are intermediate hosts and red foxes are definitive hosts of M. leptothylacus. The shedding patterns of experimentally infected foxes showed that destrobilation occurs frequently and that there are long periods during which no gravid proglottids are shed at all. Lengths of worms can be taken as a measure of a possible crowding effect only when worms with gravid segments are present, i.e. at the end of the prepatent period (11 to 13 days) or at the beginning of a shedding period.

Keywords

Mesocestoides leptothylacusdestrobilationtaxonomyproglottid sheddinglife-cycle
Type
Research Papers
Information
Journal of Helminthology , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , September 1987 , pp. 213 - 218
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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