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Chinchilla laniger can be used as an experimental model for Taenia solium taeniasis.

Abstract
Chinchilla laniger has been reported as an experimental definitive host for Taenia solium; however no information about its suitability and yield of gravid tapeworm proglottids containing viable and infective eggs has been published. In total 55 outbred female chinchillas were infected with 4 cysticerci each; hosts were immunodeppressed with 6 or 8 mg of methyl-prednisolone acetate every 14 days starting the day of infection and their discomfort was followed. Kinetics of coproantigen ELISA or expelled proglottids was used to define the infection status. Efficiency of tapeworm establishment was 21% and of parasite gravidity was 8%; chinchillas showed some degree of suffering along the infection. Viability of eggs obtained from gravid proglottids was tested comparing methods previously published, our results showed 62% viability with propidium iodide, 54% with trypan blue, 34% with neutral red, 30% by oncosphere activation and 7% with bromide 3-(4,5-dimetil-tiazol-2-il)-2,5-difenil-tetrazolio (MTT) reduction; no statistical differences were obtained between most techniques, except activation. Four piglets were infected with 50,000 eggs each, necropsy was performed 3 months later and, after counting the number of cysticerci recovered, the percentage of infection was similar to data obtained with T. solium eggs recovered from humans. Our results demonstrate that the experimental model of T. solium taeniasis in C. laniger is a good alternative for providing eggs and adult tapeworms to be used in different types of experiments; optimization of the model probably depends on the use of inbred hosts and on the reduction of infected animals' suffering.
AuthorsPablo Maravilla, Adriana Garza-Rodriguez, Benjamin Gomez-Diaz, Diego Emiliano Jimenez-Gonzalez, Elizabeth Toral-Bastida, Joel Martinez-Ocaña, Brett West, Nadia Molina, Ramon Garcia-Cortes, Simon Kawa-Karasik, Mirza Romero-Valdovinos, Guillermina Avila-Ramirez, Ana Flisser
JournalParasitology international (Parasitol Int) Vol. 60 Issue 4 Pg. 364-70 (Dec 2011) ISSN: 1873-0329 [Electronic] Netherlands
PMID21723412 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
CopyrightCopyright © 2011 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
Chemical References
  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents
  • Formazans
  • Tetrazolium Salts
  • MTT formazan
  • Methylprednisolone Acetate
  • Methylprednisolone
Topics
  • Animals
  • Anti-Inflammatory Agents (administration & dosage)
  • Chinchilla (immunology, parasitology)
  • Disease Models, Animal
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
  • Female
  • Fertility
  • Formazans
  • Humans
  • Immunosuppression Therapy
  • Methylprednisolone (administration & dosage, analogs & derivatives)
  • Methylprednisolone Acetate
  • Parasite Egg Count
  • Swine (parasitology)
  • Taenia solium (physiology)
  • Taeniasis (immunology, parasitology)
  • Tetrazolium Salts
  • Zygote (physiology)

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