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Piroplasmosis among Cattle in the Mombera District, Nyasaland, 1909

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Hugh S. Stannus
Affiliation:
Medical Officer, Nyasaland.

Extract

During the rainy season of 1908–9 an outbreak of disease among cattle occurred over a somewhat widespread area of the Mombera district, causing considerable losses in herds owned by natives.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1910

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References

1 In a drawing accompanying Dr Stannus' paper, parasites are figured which appear identical with Theileria parva. The corpuscles contained forms similar to those illustrating the paper by Nuttall, and Fantham, , Parasitology, iii. No. 2, PI. XII, especially figs. 1, 3, 15, 20, 25.–G.H.F.N.Google Scholar