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On the persistence of protozoan infections in the cloaca of an anuran Xenopus laevis (Daudin)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

J. L. Mohr
J. L. Mohr
Affiliation:
Department of Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
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Extract

Using the method developed by VanOrden & Nelson (1926) in withdrawing and examining cloacal contents of four captive individuals of the Plathander or clawed frog (Xenopus laevis), the writer determined that infections of ciliate protozoans had persisted for more than 6 years.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 34 , Issue 3-4 , November 1942 , pp. 284
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1942

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