SUSCEPTIBILITY OF WILD MAMMALS TO INFECTION WITH NAEGLERIA-FOWLERI

被引：12

作者：

JOHN, DT ^{[1
]}

HOPPE, KL ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] UNIV MASSACHUSETTS,DEPT ENTOMOL,AMHERST,MA 01003

来源：

JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY | 1990年 / 76卷 / 06期

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D O I：

10.2307/3282806

中图分类号：

R38 [医学寄生虫学]; Q [生物科学];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ; 100103 ;

摘要：

Animals of 4 families of small wild mammals were live-trapped and inoculated intranasally with Naegleria fowleri to determine patterns of susceptibility. Of the 7 species of animals examined, only rodents were susceptible to N. fowleri. Susceptible animals were eastern gray squirrel, hispid cotton rat, muskrat, and house mouse. Mammals that were not susceptible at a dose of 10(6) were opossum, raccoon, and eastern cottontail rabbit. Perhaps rodents and humans share a common anatomical or physiological determinant that makes them susceptible to infection with N. fowleri.

引用

页码：865 / 868

页数：4

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