Open AccessAn antelope trypanosome
Publication year - 1912
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.1912.0017
Subject(s) - trypanosoma , trypanosomiasis , biology , shot (pellet) , veterinary medicine , zoology , blood smear , distribution (mathematics) , virology , immunology , medicine , mathematics , mathematical analysis , chemistry , organic chemistry , malaria
Ten days after blood of a bushbuck, which was shot on the shores of the Victoria Nyanza, had been injected into a healthy goat, trypanosomes appeared in the goat's blood. The same species of trypanosome was present in blood smears made from another bushbuck and a situtunga, which were shot in the same neighbourhood. The small characteristic trypanosome corresponds morphologically to the one which was discovered in cattle in Uganda, and which was namedTrypanosoma uniforme by the Royal Society Sleeping Sickness Commission, 1908-10. This is shown by curves representing the distribution, by percentages, in respect to length of the antelope trypanosome andTrypanosoma uniforme .