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Apparent congenital transmission ofFrenkelia (Coccidia: Eimeriidae): First Recorded Incidence

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Apparent congenital transmission of frenkeliosis to one out of three young bank voles,Clethrionomys glareolus, conceived in the field but born in the laboratory to a captured wild female vole is reported. The factors favouring transplacental transmission of frenkeliosis are discussed in the light of the recently elucidated obligatorily heteroxenous eimeriid coccidian life cycle ofFrenkelia, the epizootiology of frenkeliosis and data available on the vertical transmission of related tissue cyst-forming coccidian parasites.

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  1. Laboratory of Parasitology, University of Amsterdam and Institute of Tropical Hygiene, Royal Tropical Institute, 57 Mauritskade, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Tadros, W., Laarman, J.J. Apparent congenital transmission ofFrenkelia (Coccidia: Eimeriidae): First Recorded Incidence. Z. Parasitenkd. 58, 41–46 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00930790

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