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VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY
Volume 199, Issue 3-4, Pages 247-249Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2013.10.023
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Black rat; Leishmania infantum; Toxoplasma gondii; Neospora caninum; Montecristo island
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Isolated environments are privileged settings to study transmission of infection. Montecristo is a small island where no wild or domestic carnivores are present. Invasive Black rats Rattus rattus (n = 78) were captured and tested by PCR for Leishmania infantum, Toxoplasma gondii and Neospora caninum. We wanted to test, for these parasites, the existence of a sylvatic cycle independent of reservoir or definitive hosts. None of the rats tested positive by PCR for either T. gondii or N. caninum. We recorded a 15.5% prevalence (CI95% 8-26%) of L. infantum in the rats and Phlebotomus mascittii was captured in Montecristo, leading us to identify it as possible vector of the parasite. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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