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[Eimeria species (Eucoccidida: Eimeriidae) found in the cotton rat Sigmodon hispidus in Costa Rica]
A Castro1, M Chinchilla, O M Guerrero
1Departamento Parasitología, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica.
Revista De Biologia Tropical
|May 29, 1999
Abstract:
Cotton rats (Sigmodon hispidus) were collected from Ojo de Agua, Alajuela (N = 74) and Cañas, Guanacaste (N = 29). Feces had 31 E. sigmodontis, nine E. tuskegeensis, eight E. roperi, three E. webbae and two Eimeria sp. This is the first report of these coccidian parasites for Costa Rica.