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Studies on Trypanosoma avium Danilewsky 1885 I. Incidence in some birds of Hertfordshire

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

J. R. Baker
J. R. Baker
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine*
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1. A survey of 227 rooks (Corvus frugilegus frugilegus L.) and seventy jackdaws (C. monedula spermologus Vieill.) was conducted in Hertfordshire. The birds were examined by means of cultures of their peripheral blood, or (in the case of eleven rooks and one jackdaw only) bone-marrow, on N.N.N. medium. Twenty-seven rooks (11·9%) and six jackdaws (8·6%) were found to be infected.

Some of the rooks were examined at a time of year when the trypanosomes are not present in the peripheral circulation; other rooks were examined in the first year of their life before adults of Ornithomyia avicularia (the vector of this parasite) were present. Ignoring birds of these two groups, twenty-six out of seventy-eight (33·3 %) adult rooks were found to be infected. This value probably approximates to the natural infection rate among adult rooks (and perhaps jackdaws).

2. The trypanosome in question is a large spindle-shaped form, measuring an average of 48·2µ in length (excluding flagellum) and 5·5µ in width. There is a tapering aflagellar region extending 14·1µ (on the average) beyond the kineto-plast. This trypanosome is assigned to the species T. avium Danilewsky, 1885.

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Parasitology , Volume 46 , Issue 3-4 , November 1956 , pp. 308 - 320
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1956

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