Lankesterella sp.
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5340123 |
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Lankesterella sp. |
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Locality. – Singapore: urban zone, 2001.
Description. – Sporozoite stages of Lankesterella sp. were found, one inside an erythrocyte and one free in the liver smear. The sporozoites (6.0 × 1.2 in size) were recognized by their conspicuous, blue-staining refractile body.
Remarks. – Baker et al. (1997) confirmed early reports of Lainson (1958) and Dissaniake (1967) on the presence of species of Lankesterella in birds, which produced visceral gamogonies, and sporogonies yielding circulating sporozoites. Lankesterella spp. coexists with infections of extra-intestinal merogonic stages of Isospora , also called Atoxoplasma Garnham, 1950 . This led to considerable nomenclatural confusion: denial of the existence of the sporozoite yielding Lankesterella and application of the name Lankesterella to the isosporan visceral infection ( Atoxoplasma ) ( Lainson, 1959; Box, 1970, 1981).
Box, E. D., 1970. Atoxoplasma associated with an isosporan oocyst in canaries. Journal of Protozoology, 17: 391 - 396.
Box, E. D., 1981. Isospora as an extraintestinal parasite of passerine birds. Journal of Protozoology, 28: 244 - 246.
Lainson R., 1959: Atoxoplasma Garnham, 1950, as a synonym for Lankesterella Labbe. Its life cycle in the English sparrow (Passer domesticus domesticus Linn.). Journal of Protozoology. 6: 360 - 371.
Lainson, R., 1958. Some observations on the life cycle of Atoxoplasma, with particular reference to parasite's schizogony and its transmission by the mite Dermanyssus gallinae. Nature 182: 1250 - 1251.
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