PREVALENCE OF SOME HELMINTHS IN RODENTS CAPTURED FROM DIFFERENT CITY STRUCTURES
INCLUDING POULTRY FARMS AND HUMAN POPULATION OF
FAISALABAD,
PAKISTAN
RAFIQUE, S. A. RANA, H. A. KHAN AND A. SOHAIL1
Department of Zoology and Fisheries and
1Department of
Agricultural Entomology, University
of Agriculture,
Faisalabad,
Pakistan
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to investigate prevalence of zoonotic helminths
from human, Rattus rattus (R. rattus),
Rattus norvegicus (R. norvegicus)
and Mus musculus of eight different
structures, namely grain shops in grain market, departmental stores, railway
godowns, food processing plants (bakeries), poultry farms, houses in
kachi-abadies, houses in departmental colonies and posh residences and banglows
in Faisalabad city. All the structures were sampled for 2 months each and
completed in 16 months. Highest prevalence (70%) of
Vsmpirolepis spp. was observed in
R. rattus sampled from poultry farms, which was significantly higher
(P<0.05) than the prevalence of all the helminths recovered from other
structures. Hymenolepis nana (H.
nana) was observed in 60% of the sampled
Mus musculus collected from kachi-abadies, which was significantly
higher (P<0.05) than all other structures studies for
H. nana, except R. rattus
from kachi-abadies (55%) and R. norvegicus
from grain shops in grain market (55%). The rodent’s endo-parasites viz.,
Hymenolepis nana,
Teania taenaeformis,
Entrobius spps and Trichuiris spps observed in
R. rattus, R. norvegicus and
M. musculus at different percentages
were also recorded in human stool samples with an incidence of 48, 21, 76 and
10%, respectively