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REVISTA BRASILEIRA DE PARASITOLOGIA VETERINARIA
Volume 23, Issue 1, Pages 94-97Publisher
BRAZILIAN COLL VETERINARY PARASITOLOGY
DOI: 10.1590/S1984-29612014014
Keywords
Taenia solium; dung beetle; Ammophorus rubripes
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- Fogarty International Center/NIH [D43 TW008273-03, D43 TW001140]
- Wellcome Trust Senior International Research Fellowship in Public Health and Tropical Medicine
- FOGARTY INTERNATIONAL CENTER [D43TW008273, D43TW001140] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
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The present study evaluated the capacity of Ammophorus rubripes beetles to carry Taenia solium eggs, in terms of duration and viability of eggs in their digestive system. One hundred beetles were distributed into five polyethylene boxes, and then they were infected with T. solium eggs. Gravid proglottids of T. solium were crushed and then mixed with cattle feces. One gram of this mixture was placed in each box for 24 hours, after which each group of beetles was transferred into a new clean box. Then, five beetles were dissected every three days. Time was strongly associated with viability (r=0.89; P<0.001) and the calculated time to cero viability is 36 days. The eggs in the intestinal system of each beetle were counted and tested for viability. Taenia solium eggs were present in the beetle's digestive system for up to 39 days (13th sampling day out of 20), gradually reducing in numbers and viability, which was 0 on day 36 post-infection. Egg viability was around 40% up to day 24 post-infection, with a median number of eggs of 11 per beetle at this time. Dung beetles may potentially contribute towards dispersing T. solium eggs in endemic areas.
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