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The Host Restriction of Haemoproteus columbae
Author(s) -
BAKER J. R.
Publication year - 1968
Publication title -
the journal of protozoology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.067
H-Index - 77
eISSN - 1550-7408
pISSN - 0022-3921
DOI - 10.1111/j.1550-7408.1968.tb02132.x
Subject(s) - parasitemia , host (biology) , biology , inoculation , veterinary medicine , immunology , medicine , ecology , plasmodium falciparum , malaria
SYNOPSIS. Sporozoites of Haemoproteus columbae failed to produce an erythrocytic infection in 4 Columba palumbus , tho 2 C. livia (the natural host of H. columbae ), inoculated with part of the same material, developed parasitemia. H. columbae formed oocysts in all of 6 Ornithomyia avicularia (the natural vector of the haemoproteid of C. palumbus ), but most of the oocysts appeared degenerate and no sporozoites were seen in the 4 O. avicularia which survived for 10–19 days.