Egg laying capacity of Fibricola seoulensis in mice and rats.
10.3347/kjp.1988.26.2.117
- Author:
Sung Tae HONG
1
;
Chang Hyun KIM
;
Sun HUH
;
Soon Hyung LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Parasitology and Institute of Endemic Diseases, College of Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 110-460, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH:
parasitology-helminth-trematoda;
Fibricola seoulensis;
egg
- From:The Korean Journal of Parasitology
1988;26(2):117-119
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
-
Abstract:
The egg laying capacity of Fibricola seoulensis was observed in mice and rats. In mice, the mean number of eggs produced by an adult worm a day was 116 at the first week after infection, 123 at the 2nd week and 42 at the 3rd week. Thereafter, the capacity of about 20 eggs/worm/day was maintained up to one year period. In rats, it generally produced more eggs; 49 at 1 week, 250 at 2 weeks, 216 at 4 weeks, 327 at 6 months and 11 at one year after infection. It survived longer than a year in mice and rats.
