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The Mode of Multiplication of Piroplasma bovis, P. Pitheci in the Circulating Blood compared with that of P. Canis, with Notes on other species of Piroplasma

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

George H. F. Nuttall
Affiliation:
Fellow of Magdalene College, Quick Professor of Biology in the University of Cambridge.
G. S. Graham-Smith
Affiliation:
University Lecturer in Hygiene, Cambridge.

Extract

In stained preparations Piroplasma canis, P. bovis and P. pitheci may be distinguished from other intracorpuscular parasites by the presence of intracorpuscular pyriform bodies, usually occurring in pairs and less commonly in fours, eights and sixteens. These pyriform bodies show a dense mass of chromatin near the pointed end and a loose mass, often connected with the dense mass, situated towards the blunt end. In suitable preparations peculiar dividing forms, most typically repre-sented by trilobed forms or more or less pyriform bodies joined to a single smaller rounded or elongated mass of protoplasm, may be seen.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1908

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