PRENATAL AND LACTATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF TOXOCARA-CANIS AND ANCYLOSTOMA-CANINUM - EXPERIMENTAL-INFECTION OF THE BITCH AT MIDPREGNANCY AND AT PARTURITION
PRENATAL AND LACTATIONAL TRANSMISSION OF TOXOCARA-CANIS AND ANCYLOSTOMA-CANINUM - EXPERIMENTAL-INFECTION OF THE BITCH AT MIDPREGNANCY AND AT PARTURITION
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DOI:
10.1016/0020-7519(85)90041-4
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
4
通讯作者:
ROBERSON, EL
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作者:
BURKE, TM;ROBERSON, EL
The degree of prenatal transmission and both the degree and longevity of lactogenic transmission of Toxocara canis and Ancylostoma caninum to pups were studied in Beagle bitches which were experimentally infected with both parasites at either mid-pregnancy or within 48 h following parturition. Pups born to infected bitches were removed at birth and raised by a surrogate parasite-free mother until 4 weeks of age when pups were necropsied to determine prenatal infections. At the beginning of each week of lactation, a new group of four parasite-free pups was placed with each infected bitch. After nursing an infected bitch for 1 week, each group was transferred to an uninfected bitch for at least 3 additional weeks of nursing after which the pups were necropsied to recover and tabulate parasites acquired lactationally from the infected bitch. When bitches were infected at mid-pregnancy, 95.5% of the ascarids were transmitted prenatally to their own off-spring and 4.5% of the ascarids were transmitted lactationally to weekly rotated pups. Ascarids were transmitted via the milk during each of 5 weeks of lactation, with transmission of consistently higher numbers during weeks 1-3 than in weeks 4 and 5. Infection of bitches at parturition denied ascarids the prenatal route of transmission but resulted in greater numbers of ascarids being passed through the milk for each of 4 consecutive weeks of lactation. Transmission of hookworms was solely by the lactational route. With mid-pregnancy infections, a significantly higher number of hookworms (63.1%) were transmitted during the first of 5 weeks of lactation; progressively fewer were passed in subsequent weeks. With infections at parturition, only 27.8% of hookworms were transmitted through the milk during the first week of nursing but large numbers were transferred in weeks 2 (36.9%) and 3 (26.7%). The quantity of parasites transmitted in the milk was not significantly different among weeks 1, 2 and 3.