| [first report on neotoma micropus (rodentia) as a reservoir of trypanosoma cruzi in mexico]. | using xenodiagnosis, two (8.0%) of 25 woodrats neotoma micropus were found infected with tripanosome parasite in vaquerias, a village in nuevo leon state, mexico. the triatomine species developing infective metacyclic trypanosomes at week 12th were triatoma pallidipennis, t. infestans and t. gerstaeckeri. experimental infections using infected dejections were successfully conducted on laboratory mice (cd1 strain) confirming the vertebrate cycle of trypanosome cruzi. the biological characterizati ... | 1992 | 1306997 |
| dunnifilaria meningica sp. n. (filarioidea: onchocercidae) from the central nervous system of the wood-rat (neotoma micropus) in mexico. | dunnifilaria meningica sp. n. (filarioidea: onchocercidae) is described from the wood-rat, neotoma micropus, trapped in nuevo leon state, mexico. the adult worms are characteristically found in the subarachnoid spaces along the cerebellum and the medulla oblongata. the short, sheathed microfilariae are found in the peripheral blood. they do not show a periodicity. the adults are of small size (female worms are approximately 50 mm long, males about 25 mm). female worms are didelphic. male worms h ... | 1987 | 3327142 |