A total of 1,110 small mammals has been examined for Capillaria hepatica in Shoa Province, Ethiopia. Nineteen of 308 (6.2%) Rattus rattus and 1 of 212 (0.5%) Praomys albipes were infected. The data indicate that C. hepatica was essentially limited to commensal rats (R. rattus).
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1 July 1978
Capillaria hepatica IN SMALL MAMMALS COLLECTED FROM SHOA PROVINCE, ETHIOPIA
A. FARHANG-AZAD,
D. A. SCHLITTER