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200 COMPARATIVE PARASITOLOGY, 67(2), JULY 2000 rats are more often purchased as pets. Surprisingly, our results indicate that pet store rats constitute a more important reservoir for H. nana than do mice or hamsters. Also, this is the first report of H. nana from a pet prairie dog, a nontraditional or exotic animal that is becoming common in pet stores (Storer and Watson, 1997). Improper hygiene following handling of all rodents, including feeders, may lead to transmission. A pet ownership profile (Teclaw et al., 1992) showed that approximately 50% of households, primarily those with children between the ages of 6-17 years, owned some type of pet. Further, 2% of Florida AIDS patients interviewed owned pet rodents, but most health care providers failed to advise them of possible zoonoses from their companion animals (Conti et al., 1995). Overall, 75% of surveyed pet stores were selling animals infected with H. nana. 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