| influence of intestinal cestodes on the blood picture of the brown rats (rattus norvegicus) of hyderabad sindh, pakistan. | present study was performed to determined the changes in the blood picture of the brown rats rattus norvegicus naturally infected with intestinal cestodes. the results are based on the examination of 82 brown rats captured at random from hyderabad city and its adjacent areas. blood profiling of cestode (hymenolepis diminuta and hymenolepis nana) infected male and female rats showed significantly lower values of total erythrocyte count (tec), haemoglobin (hb) concentration, haematocrit (hct), mea ... | 2007 | 19093515 |