| chinchilla laniger can be used as an experimental model for taenia solium taeniasis. | chinchilla laniger has been reported as an experimental definitive host for taenia solium; however no information about its suitability and yield of gravid tapeworm proglottids containing viable and infective eggs has been published. in total 55 outbred female chinchillas were infected with 4 cysticerci each; hosts were immunodeppressed with 6 or 8mg of methyl-prednisolone acetate every 14days starting the day of infection and their discomfort was followed. kinetics of coproantigen elisa or expe ... | 2011 | 21723412 |