The rat and its relation to the public health / by various authors ; prepared by direction of the Surgeon-General ; Treasury Department, Public Health and Marine Hospital Service of the United States.

Date:
1910
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    COMPENDIUM OF ANIMAL PARASITES REPORTED FOR RATS AND MICE (GENUS MUS). By Ch. Wardell Stiles, Ph. D., Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, and Albert IIassall, M. R. C. Y. S., Assistant, Division of Zoology, United States Bureau of Animal Industry. The following list of parasites is prepared from the detailed host catalogues of the zoological divisions of the Public Health and Marine- Hospital Service and the Bureau of Animal Industry. The species of hosts and parasites are taken as given by the various authors. It is needless to say that no list of this kind can ever lay claim to being complete. Genus MUS Linneaus, 1758. [Mils musculus should be the type species.] MUS AGRARIUS.—Harvest Mouse. Cestoda: murina Dujardin: Hymenolepis.—Small intestine. [See fraterna.] Nematoda: obvelala: Oxyuris.—Intestine. Arachnoidea: acuminatus Neumann: Ixodes.—External. Insecta: fasciatus Bose: Ceratophyllus.—External. musculi Duges: Ctenopsyllus, Ctenopsylla.—External. Insecta: pallidus Taschenberg: MUS ALBIPES. Pulex.—External. MUS ALEXANDRINUS.—Roof Rat. [See also Mus rattus alexandrinus.] Cestoda: diminuta Rudolphi, 1819: Taenia, Hymenolepis.—Small intestine. fasciolaris Rudolphi: Cysticercus.—Liver. leptocephala: Taenia.—Small intestine. murina Dujardin: Hymenolepis.—Small intestine. [See fraterna.] (Ill)