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[Little savage mammalians: free-living amoebae vectors? (author's transl)]. 1982

A M Simitzis-Le Flohic, and C Chastel

We tried to prove the part of the little savage mammalians as active intermediate hosts to the intestine level for some free-living limax amoebae of limax group. For this we participated to several trapping-season in Britanny and in Tunisia. From 273 samplings, we studied 224 with the results thereafter: the rodents are the first (213/224) and the 3 most frequent species are also the most often hosts: 20/128 A. sylvaticus, 9/58 C. glareolus and 4/16 M. spretus. There must be a double positive factor: life in burrow near the earth and meal type. The 78 samplings for which we checked the free-living amoebae by stool examination, are the most poor by culture: 2/78 (2.5 p. 100). This lack explains the negative stool examination. The isolated amoebae belong for 31/34 to the genus Acanthamoeba, of one potentially pathogenic: A. hatchetti. Moreover the Finistere biotop appears particularly poor (2.5 p. 100 carriers in front of 21 p. 100 in Ille-et-Vilaine and 24 p. 100 in Tunisia).

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D004199	Disease Vectors	Invertebrates or non-human vertebrates which transmit infective organisms from one host to another.	Infectious Disease Vectors,Disease Vector,Disease Vector, Infectious,Disease Vectors, Infectious,Infectious Disease Vector,Vector, Disease,Vector, Infectious Disease,Vectors, Disease,Vectors, Infectious Disease
D005243	Feces	Excrement from the INTESTINES, containing unabsorbed solids, waste products, secretions, and BACTERIA of the DIGESTIVE SYSTEM.
D005602	France	A country in western Europe bordered by the Atlantic Ocean, the English Channel, the Mediterranean Sea, and the countries of Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, the principalities of Andorra and Monaco, and by the duchy of Luxembourg. Its capital is Paris.	Corsica,Saint Pierre and Miquelon,Miquelon and Saint Pierre,Miquelon and St. Pierre,St. Pierre and Miquelon
D000656	Amoeba	A genus of ameboid protozoa. Characteristics include a vesicular nucleus and the formation of several PSEUDOPODIA, one of which is dominant at a given time. Reproduction occurs asexually by binary fission.	Ameba
D000818	Animals	Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.	Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D000828	Animal Population Groups	Animals grouped according to ecological, morphological or genetic populations.	Animal Population Group,Population Group, Animal,Population Groups, Animal
D000835	Animals, Wild	Animals considered to be wild or feral or not adapted for domestic use. It does not include wild animals in zoos for which ANIMALS, ZOO is available.	Animals, Nondomestic,Animals, Nondomesticated,Animals, Feral,Stray Animals,Animal, Feral,Animal, Nondomestic,Animal, Nondomesticated,Animal, Stray,Animal, Wild,Animals, Stray,Feral Animal,Feral Animals,Nondomestic Animal,Nondomestic Animals,Nondomesticated Animal,Nondomesticated Animals,Stray Animal,Wild Animal,Wild Animals
D012377	Rodentia	A mammalian order which consists of 29 families and many genera.	Beavers,Capybaras,Castor Beaver,Dipodidae,Hydrochaeris,Jerboas,Rodents,Beaver,Capybara,Hydrochaeri,Jerboa,Rodent,Rodentias
D014416	Tunisia	A country in northern Africa between ALGERIA and LIBYA. Its capital is Tunis.