Felt Stephen A, Hussein Hussein I, Mohamed Helmy Ibrahim-Helmy
Stanford University, School of Medicine, Comparative Medicine Department, Veterinary Service Center, Stanford, CA 94305-5410, USA.
Lab Anim (NY). 2008 Jun;37(6):256-61. doi: 10.1038/laban0608-256.
The fat-tailed jird, a small North African rodent with a distinctive club-shaped tail, is a convenient research subject and an emerging model for Old World leishmaniasis. The authors present the natural history and biology of the Egyptian fat-tailed jird and provide guidelines for the breeding and husbandry of this species on the basis of their experience raising a colony from wild stock in Cairo, Egypt. They also discuss the diseases they encountered in wild and captive-bred jirds.
肥尾沙鼠是一种小型北非啮齿动物，尾巴呈独特的棒状，是一种方便的研究对象，也是东半球利什曼病的新兴模型。作者介绍了埃及肥尾沙鼠的自然史和生物学特性，并根据他们在埃及开罗从野生种群培育一个种群的经验，提供了该物种繁殖和饲养的指南。他们还讨论了在野生和人工饲养的肥尾沙鼠中遇到的疾病。
