Cryptosporidiosis reservoir in wild brown rats (Rattus norvegicus) in the UK
- 1 August 1995
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Epidemiology and Infection
- Vol. 115 (1) , 207-209
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0950268800058271
Abstract
Summary: Rats (n= 73) were trapped from nine rural farms around Oxfordshire and faeces were examined using the auramine-phenol and the Modified Ziehl-Neelsen techniques.Cryptosporidium parvumoocysts were detected in the faeces from 46 (63%) rats. This suggests that wild rats represent a risk to human and livestock health through the carriage and transmission of this zoonotic protozoan.Keywords
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