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Some new Internal Parasites of the California Ground Squirrel (Otospermophilus Beecheyi)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Creighton Wellman  and
Wm. B. Wherry
Creighton Wellman
Affiliation:
Oakland, California
Wm. B. Wherry
Affiliation:
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.
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While examining last year some California ground squirrels, we found among this rodent's endoparasites the following protozoa, worm and mite which appear to be new. Ordinarily the mere recording of new species of the parasites of wild animals is of little interest to physicians, but since the rô1e played by O. beecheyi in the maintenance of plague on our Pacific Coast was definitely established (vide Wherry, Journ. Infect. Dis. 1908, v. 485)1 all medical men are naturally interested in the diseases which affect this rodent. Therefore the following brief descriptions of the parasites we have found are offered.

Type
Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 3 , Issue 4 , December 1910 , pp. 417 - 422
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1910

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References

1 See Parasitology, vol. ii. p. 297 (re fleas on rodents in California).Google Scholar; Journ. of Hygiene, vol. ix. p. 1 (anti-plague measures in San Francisco)Google Scholar; Journ. of Hygiene, vol. x. No. 4 (re plague among ground squirrels in America).Google Scholar