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Oocysts were found in the feces of chickens (recipients) dosed orally with whole blood, liver, lung, or heart homogenates from chickens and turkeys (donors) inoculated 3 and 4 days previously with a mixture of 3.5×106 oocysts of chickenEimeria. No oocysts were found in the feces of recipients given spleen homogenates from these same chickens and turkeys and none were found in the feces of recipients given similar material from uninoculated donors. Intracellular sporozoites were found in the peripheral blood of a turkey inoculated with chickenEimeria. The results indicate that a small number of sporozoites are capable of invading and surviving for at least 4 days in the peripheral blood of chickens and turkeys.
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Kogut, M.H., Long, P.L. Extraintestinal sporozoites of chickenEimeria in chickens and turkeys. Z. Parasitenkd. 70, 287–295 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00927814
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