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Selection of a precocious line of the rabbit coccidium Eimeria flavescens Marotel and Guilhon (1941) and characterisation of its endogenous cycle

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The SPF rabbits were inoculated with oocysts of Eimeria flavescens and the first newly developed oocysts were recovered. They were used for inoculation of other rabbits which conseqeuntly excreted oocysts sooner than in the previous passage. By repeated use of this method, the prepatent period was shortened after 18 passages by more than 60 h. The endogenous development of this precocious line (PL) differed from that of the original strain (OS). Compared to OS, two asexual generations, second (or third) and fourth, were absent in PL. The first merogony took place in the jejunum and ileum in OS and, in contrast, in the large intestine in PL. Like in other rabbit coccidia, two types of meronts (A and B) were seen in each generation. However, the ratio of B: A meronts in the last (fifth) asexual generation as well as ratio of microgamonts:macrogamonts differs in OS and PL.

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The present work was supported by the Grant Agency of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Project No. S6022002, Research project of the Institute of Parasitology, AS CR (Z60220518) and by BIOPHARM, Research Institute of Biopharmacy and Veterinary Drugs, Jílové near Prague, Czech Republic in frame of COST project 0C848.02. We thank František Černík and Zbyněk Houdek from BIOPHARM for help in performing the experiments and Marie Kreimová from Institute of Parasitology for technical assistance. The experiments performed on the animals complied with the current laws of the Czech Republic.

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Pakandl, M. Selection of a precocious line of the rabbit coccidium Eimeria flavescens Marotel and Guilhon (1941) and characterisation of its endogenous cycle. Parasitol Res 97, 150–155 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-005-1411-x

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