| discovery of mammalian hosts to gnathostoma nipponicum larvae and prevalence of the larvae in rodents and insectivores. | from september 1993 to november 1995, to clarify the natural infection of gnathostoma nipponicum (g.n.) larvae in small wild mammals, a total of 313 animals consisted of three species of rodents and two species of insectivores, collected from an endemic area of this nematode in aomori prefecture, were investigated. two species, rattus norvegicus (r.n.) and chimarrogale himalayica (c.h.) were infected with g.n. larvae, and the infection rate was extremely high with 27.2% and 72.7% in the former a ... | 1996 | 8898280 |