Urgent Help Needed

[orion_dv8]

I need help if anyone knows of any scholarly journals or articles otherwise which offer proof that rat pinworms are killed by freezing. Any and all help is greatly appreciated. It is a matter of great importance.
cheers
ORION

[kronic2005]

Hey i have no clue what your talking about. But where are you from? I think i know you somehow through someone, do you have an email similar to your ssnakess login???

[Leolord]

I also have no idea what your talkin about sorry!!!!! lol

--Matt--:devil:

[-okapi-]

"Understanding Reptile Parasites" by Roger J. Klingenberg D.V.M. only talks about how to treat it in reptiles, but in the diet part it says: "freezing for at least 30 days should eliminate most parasites."

And thats the only book I have on the subject. When i go to school on tuesday I will look in the library. I also have the book "The herpetoculture of leopard geckos" coming in the mail and it's supposed to have a good chapter on health, so ill let you know what I find out.

[-okapi-]

ok, all the books at my university only deal with human pinworms. Sorry i cant help :( However this whole research project has me a little paranoid
:bugout: :bugout: :bugout: :bugout: :bugout: :bugout:
i dont like parasites...

[orion_dv8]

Well thanks for the help anyways all i find is for humans too, the problem was that at the lab where i work or rather will work found out about the fact that i keep snakes, and was in contact with rats in the past so they became concerned about the pinworm issue, since we will be working with rats and mice. ahhh well i believe the problem will be sorted out anyways as the rats i kept were frozen and the ova are dead but they are still worried about the latency of the ova since they spread quite readily. I belive though that i have been cleared and my quarantine many thanks anyways ill keep looking as now i am really interested myself.
cheers
ORION

[-okapi-]

Im pretty sure that freezing destroys DNA in all but a few animals, and those animals are from extreme places (like 1 species of fish near the north pole, a cricket in russia, and the "water bear" which is a neat little microscopic critter that looks like its made out of jello and eats moss).

Plus the human pinworm eggs can only remain viable for 6 weeks, if they dont find a host within that time they die. and since each species is host specific there is a very small chance that you could spred them unless you are constantly touching host rats then non host rats. However, if it is the rat pinworm we are dealing with, I dont see why they are worried about the mice. pinworms are very host specific, if conditions inside the host arnt just right they cant establish themselves.

A random fact you can tell them: they themselves are hosts to nematodes... Walking barefoot outside, swimming in untreated water, touching anything in a daycare, coming into contact with any fecal matter, even at a microscopic level, etc are all ways that they could have caught parasites. You could remind them of this fact...


For more info on water bears look up Echiniscis spp.