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Fully differentiated kinetes, average length 17.6μm, appeared in the haemolymph of engorged nymphs usually 17 to 20 days after repletion. Kinetes were observed at first in the salivary glands on day 18 after repletion. The kinetes then transformed into fission bodies of about 10μm in diameter, mainly in type III alveoli and less frequently in type II alveoli. The fission bodies grew up to a size of about 20μm after several divisions of their nucleus. At this time the ticks moulted and no further development occurred until activation. Shortly before infestation the salivary glands began to proliferate, and rapid growth of the fission bodies was observed, especially in young ticks where development of ‘infective particles’ (‘sporozoites’) was concluded within two days. Development in feeding adult ticks apparently occurred in four major steps: (1) Division of primary fission bodies (sporonts) into numerous secondary fission bodies (‘primary sporoblasts’), (2) division of secondary fission bodies into tertiary fission bodies (‘secondary sporoblasts’), (3) production of particles (‘sporozoites’) by tertiary fission bodies and release of particles into the saliva, and (4) degeneration of fission bodies and their host cell but further release of particles.
The host cell was stimulated to giant growth, thus its diameter increased, on average, from 15 to 110 μm. Heavy infections resulting from parasitaemias of >40% caused disease and mortality in the tick population. Development was much retarded by aging. In ticks starved for six months ‘sporozoites’ did not develop before day five to seven of infestation. ‘Sporozoites’ may not develop at all in six to nine month old female ticks during the infestation period. The significance of the described developmental stages ofT. annulata was discussed and a sexual generation postulated. The hypothetic development ofT. annulata in its tick vector was illustrated.
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Schein, E., Friedhoff, K.T. Lichtmikroskopische Untersuchungen über die Entwicklung vonTheileria annulata (Dschunkowsky und Luhs, 1904) inHyalomma anatolicum excavatum (Koch, 1844). Z. Parasitenkd. 56, 287–303 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00931721
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