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The Herter Lectures. III1. Piroplasmosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

George H. F. Nuttall
George H. F. Nuttall
Affiliation:
Formerly Associate in Hygiene, Johns Hopkins University; Fellow of Magdalene College, Quick Professor of Biology in the University of Cambridge.
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The diseases included under the general term of piroplasmosis are amongst the most devastating which affect domesticated animals, and they are, consequently, of great economic importance. As far as known, all forms of piroplasmosis are tick-transmitted.

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Parasitology , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , October 1913 , pp. 302 - 320
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1913

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2 The generic name Babesia has priority, and is coming into general use, although the name Piroplasma is more usually employed by American and British writers.Google Scholar

1 See Description in Ticks, Part II, pp. 143, 293, 334 and Parasitology, vi. p. 91.Google Scholar

1 On 17 January, 1913, Dr S. T. Darling, Chief of the Department of Sanitation, Ancon, Panama, sent me a blood-film showing P. caballi taken from a horse in panama. The ticks he sent us for determination and which were taken from the horse were Dermacentor nitens and Amblyomm cajennense—it is probable that the former is the carrier, since it is usually found on horses.Google Scholar

2 In blood-film I have received (5. vi. '13) from Mr F. E. Mason of Cairo, we have only been able to detect a few small single intracorpuscular parasites, none of which were typical of true piroplasms.Google Scholar

1 See Parasitology, vi. pp. 111–117, 195–203.Google Scholar

1 Nuttall, and Hadwen, (1909).Google Scholar