Table 2.
The mean weight and Angiostrongylus spp. burden in native and introduced Rattus spp. trapped in Queensland, Australia, 2012–2015.
| Species | Maturity | Infected |
Not infected |
Totala | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Weight (g) | No. worms | No. | Weight (g) | |||
| R. fuscipes | Adult | 11 | 141.1 | 7.4 | 26 | 154.4 | 37 |
| Juvenile | 3 | 95.7 | 2.0 | 10 | 88.3 | 13 | |
| R. lutreolus | Adult | 2 | 149.2 | 1.8 | 2 | 147.6 | 4 |
| Juvenile | – | – | – | 1 | 89.2 | 1 | |
| R. norvegicus | Adult | 3 | 176.7 | 6.5 | 9 | 165.2 | 12 |
| Juvenile | 1 | 96.6 | 3.0 | 3 | 79.0 | 4 | |
| R. rattus | Adult | 46 | 154.9 | 11.3 | 195 | 157.6 | 241 |
| Juvenile | 6 | 86.6 | 5.0 | 77 | 74.8 | 83 | |
| R. sordidus | Adult | – | – | – | 1 | 150.9 | 1 |
| Juvenile | – | – | – | 1 | 61.3 | 1 | |
a
The Weights of 6 native rats were not recorded and therefore was deducted from this table.