The importance of issues associated with urban/commensal rats and mice (property
damage, management costs, and health risks) press upon research on these animals. While …

Recent advances in high-throughput sequencing technology have led to a rapid expansion
in the number of viral sequences associated with samples from vertebrates, invertebrates …

Urban slums provide suitable conditions for infestation by rats, which harbour and shed a
wide diversity of zoonotic pathogens including helminths. We aimed to identify risk factors …

Capillaria hepatica (syn. Calodium hepaticum)(Bancroft, 1893) is a nematode, which
colonises the liver of a wide range of hosts including humans. The worldwide prevalence of …

Abstract Calodium hepaticum (Nematoda; Capillariidae) is a parasitic nematode of
mammals with a cosmopolitan distribution. Adults of this nematode can infect the liver of …

Capillaria hepatica is a globally distributed zoonotic nematode parasite that most commonly
infects feral and native rats. Soil contact, pica, and living in close proximity to rat populations …

Studies evaluating the occurrence of enteropathogenic bacteria in urban rats (Rattus spp.)
are scarce worldwide, specifically in the urban environments of tropical countries. This study …

Host condition is key in understanding disease dynamics. In an urban population of Rattus
norvegicus, we aimed to assess whether infection of Leptospira interrogans and helminths …

Urbanization is rapidly transforming much of Southeast Asia, altering the structure and
function of the landscape, as well as the frequency and intensity of the interactions between …

Although sheep farming has grown in the state of Acre over the past four decades, little is
known about occurrences of helminthiases in the herds of this region. The objective of the …