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. 1970 Jun 1;11(2):247–253. doi: 10.1186/BF03547985

The Infestiveness of Heat and Gold Exposed Diphyllobothrium Latum Plerocercoids on Golden Hamster

Värme- resp. kylbehandlade Diphyllobothrium latum plerocercoiders förmåga att invadera guldhamster

K Salminen 1,
PMCID: PMC8561506  PMID: 5449100

Abstract

The infestiveness of heat (56°C/5 min. and 50°C/5 min.), and cold (−10°C and −6°C) exposed Diphyllobothrium latum plerocercoids was studied by administration to golden hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus). The cold exposed larvae were subjected to an exposure, analogous the freezing of fish and which is cut off when the temperature has declined either to −6°C or −10°C. The plerocercoids were administered to the hamsters under inhalation anaesthesia, 5 larvae per hamster. Out of 150 normal control plerocercoids administered on 30 hamsters, 74 adult worms developed, indicating 49 % infestiveness. Tests carried out with 105 56°C/5 min. exposed larvae on 21 hamsters, 45 50°C/5 min. exposed larvae on 9 hamsters, and 100 larvae exposed to −10°C on 20 hamsters all gave negative results, while out of 50 −6°C exposed larvae on 10 hamsters 3 developed to adult worms. The results show that the 56°C/5 min. and −10°C exposed larvae, which in previous studies have been considered to be inactivated on the basis of the resultant permanent immobilization, were not able to develop further in the host. Thus permanent immobility seems to be a reliable criterion of larval death.

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