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Piroplasmal sporozoites in the Argasid Ornithodoros erraticus (Lucas)

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The infective forms of Nuttallia, meri, a small-mammal piroplasm, first appear as spindle-shaped sporozoites in and around the salivary glands of Ornithodoros erraticus (small race) 30 days after the ticks had fed on infected blood. O. erraticus is the only soft tick so far proved to transmit a piroplasm.

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  1. Department of Medical Ecology, Hebrew University-Hadassah, Medical School, P. O. Box 1172, Jerusalem, Israel

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I thank Miss Zipora Goldberg for meticulous technical help, Mrs H. Salomon for the photomicrographs, and Dr. Y. Schlein and Prof. P. C. C. Garnham, F. R. S. for advice and comments.

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Gunders, A.E. Piroplasmal sporozoites in the Argasid Ornithodoros erraticus (Lucas). Experientia 33, 892–893 (1977). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01951265

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