Ectoparasites burden of House mouse (Mus musculus linnaeus, 1758) from Hai’l region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
| Autor: | Mohanad Abdelgadir, Monif AlRashidi, Eitimad H. Abdel-Rahman |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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0106 biological sciences
0301 basic medicine Flea Saudi Arabia Zoology Biology medicine.disease_cause 01 natural sciences Article House mouse 03 medical and health sciences House mice Infestation Polyplax spinulosa medicine Laelaps lcsh:QH301-705.5 biology.organism_classification 030104 developmental biology lcsh:Biology (General) Hai’l region Ectoparasites General Agricultural and Biological Sciences Xenopsylla Sex ratio 010606 plant biology & botany |
| Zdroj: | Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, Vol 27, Iss 9, Pp 2238-2244 (2020) Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences |
| Popis: | The House mice (Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758), play an important role in the transmission of diseases, both in humans and livestock, through ectoparasite carried on their feces, urine and hair remnants. The purpose of this study was to investigate the ectoparasite s infestation, as well as their quantitative and qualitative abundance and, prevalence in the house mice captured from Hai’l region, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Parasitological investigations were performed on 70 house mice trapped during 2012–2013 from two localities (Hai’l City residential area and Al-Khitah agricultural farm habitats in Hai’l region). Captured mice were identified as males (34.3% and 48.6%) and females (65.7% and 51.4%) from the residential and agricultural farm habitats, respectively. The findings of the study showed that the sex ratio of the mice found in different habitats did not influence the level of ectoparasite infestation (P > 0.05). Therefore, we combined only sex-wise samples for each habitat and isolated habitats treated separately for our subsequent analyses. A total of 514 ectoparasites individuals belong to four species were recovered from the mice, which included 339 of flea (Xenopsylla cheopis Rothschild, 1903), 39 of sucking lice (Polyplax spinulosa Burmeister, 1835), 37 of sucking lice Polyplax serrata Burmeister, 1839), and 99 of mite species (Laelaps echidninus Berlese, 1887). The presence of zoonotic parasites indicates that Mus musculus as a reservoir, might represent a danger to the public health particularly in the two sampled areas. Results also suggest an increasingly need for further studies to assess the role of the ectoparasites of house mice and their possible involvment in transmission of diseases among these areas. |
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