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Analysis of lead pollution levels within an urban ecosystem using the cestode Hymenolepis diminuta and its rat hosts as bioindicators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2017

M.A. Tripodi ,
D. Hancke  and
O.V. Suarez
M.A. Tripodi*
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ecología de Roedores Urbanos, Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, IEGEBA (CONICET-UBA), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA Núñez, Buenos Aires, Argentina
D. Hancke
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ecología de Roedores Urbanos, Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, IEGEBA (CONICET-UBA), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA Núñez, Buenos Aires, Argentina
O.V. Suarez
Affiliation:
Laboratorio de Ecología de Roedores Urbanos, Departamento de Ecología, Genética y Evolución, IEGEBA (CONICET-UBA), Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Intendente Güiraldes 2160, Ciudad Universitaria, C1428EGA Núñez, Buenos Aires, Argentina
*
Author for correspondence: M.A. Tripodi, E-mail: tripodimariel@gmail.com
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Abstract

The overall goal of this study was to use the Rattus spp./Hymenolepis diminuta model to assess environmental lead pollution in different landscape units of an urban ecosystem. Rats of the genus Rattus were collected from three shanty towns and three residential neighbourhoods of the city of Buenos Aires. Concentrations of lead in the livers of wild rats and in their parasite H. diminuta were measured using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS). The landscape unit and tissue type had a significant effect on lead concentration, being higher in residential neighbourhoods as well as in H. diminuta tissue. Nevertheless, no significant differences were found for the mean lead concentration in livers between uninfected and infected rats. Since the available information describing heavy-metal pollution within the city of Buenos Aires is scarce, the results of this study allow us to update data about the extent of biologically available lead contamination. Considering that rats and H. diminuta are distributed worldwide, this monitoring system for lead pollution might be applied successfully in other urban ecosystems.

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Journal of Helminthology , Volume 92 , Issue 5 , September 2018 , pp. 544 - 548
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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