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Blood parasites of East African vertebrates, with a brief description of exo-erythrocytic schizogony in Plasmodium pitmani

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

P. C. C. Garnham
Affiliation:
Reader in Medical Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

Extract

1. The following new species were encountered in this investigation:

Haemogregarina hamata in Lacerta jacksoni;

Hepatozoon minchini in Crotaphopeltis degeni

Pirhaemocyton granosa in Agama colonorum

Atoxoplasma argyae n.gen. n.sp. in Argya rubi-ginosa

Spirochaeta harveyi in Cercopithecus aethiops.

2. Further information is given in regard to the following known species, including new host records:

Plasmodium pitmani in Mabuia striata and M. maculilabris

Trypanosoma martini in Mabuia maculilabris

Plasmodium vaughani in Othyphantes reichenowi

Plasmodium relictum in Othyphantes reichenowi and Passer iagoensis

Haemoproteus wenyoni in Passer griseus

Leucocytozoon sp. in nine species of birds

Hepatocystes epomophori in Epomophorus labiatus

Hepatocystes kochi in Cercopithecus, etc.

Babesia pitheci in Cercopithecus mitis.

3. Exo-erythrocytic schizogony is described in Plasmodium pitmani of the skink (from spleen and heart preparations).

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1950

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