PMID: 7022328Aug 1, 1981Paper

Infections with blood parasites in the small British rodents Apodemus sylvaticus, Clethrionomys glareolus and Microtus agrestis

Parasitology
T D Healing

Abstract

Three populations of small wild British rodents were studied by capture-recapture methods over a period of 3 years, a fourth group was studied for 1 year and a fifth was sampled annually for 4 years. Blood smears were taken from 3 species of rodents: the woodmouse Apodemus sylvaticus, the bank vole Clethrionomys glareolus (and an island sub-species C.g. skomerensis) and the short-tailed vole Microtus agrestis. The smears were examined microscopically. Four genera of haemoparasites Babesia, Hepatozoon, Trypanosoma and Grahamella were detected. Babesia was absent from C.g. skomerensis, Hepatozoon was rarely found in A. sylvaticus and M. agrestis and Trypanosoma was rare in A. sylvaticus. More males were infected than females but the difference was only statistically significant for the infection with Hepatozoon in adult C.g. skomerensis. Infections with Babesia and Hepatozoon were more prevalent in adult animals and infections with Trypanosoma were more prevalent in younger individuals. Only in C.g. skomerensis was there a significant difference between age classes in the prevalence of infection with Grahamella--there being more adults infected. Concurrent infections were detected, Hepatozoon being the parasite most commonly invo...Continue Reading

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