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The discovery ofBesnoitia wallacei in Australia and the identification of a free-living intermediate host

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A cat fed free-living rats (Rattus norvegicus andRattus rattus) passed coccidian oocysts 14 days after eating aR. norvegicus. These oocysts were morphologically similar toB. wallacei and rats and mice dosed orally and intraperitoneally with them developedBesnoitia cysts in various body tissues. This organism was shown to have an obligatory two-host cycle and it is considered to beB. wallacei.

This represents the first recorded detection ofB. wallacei in Australia and also the first record of a natural free-living intermediate host forB. wallacei.

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Mason, R.W. The discovery ofBesnoitia wallacei in Australia and the identification of a free-living intermediate host. Z. Parasitenkd. 61, 173–178 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00925462

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