Open AccessTrypanosoma ingens, n. sp
Publication year - 1909
Publication title -
proceedings of the royal society of london. series b, containing papers of a biological character
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2053-9185
pISSN - 0950-1193
DOI - 10.1098/rspb.1909.0030
Subject(s) - commission , cyclops , estate , zoology , biology , trypanosoma vivax , parasite hosting , geography , genealogy , ecology , trypanosoma , history , law , political science , virology , computer science , world wide web
This is such an extraordinary looking parasite that the Commission thinks it deserves a short preliminary note, a name, and to be figured. The name is taken from Virgil’s description of the Cyclops,informe, ingens . It was first discovered in the blood of a reed-buck on February 13, 1909, at Namukekera, Uganda (lat. 0° 40´ N.; long. 32° 15´ E.), the estate of the Uganda Company, Limited; then in a bush-buck, and lastly in an ox. The wild animals and the cattle feed in the same pastures, so that it is not remarkable that the oxen should become infected.