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FOLIA PARASITOLOGICA
Volume 55, Issue 1, Pages 13-16Publisher
FOLIA PARASITOLOGICA
DOI: 10.14411/fp.2008.003
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haemogregarines; Adeleina; Hepatozoon; transmission; ICR mice; life cycle
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Two experimental trials were performed to elucidate the role of rodents in the life cycle of Hepatozoon species using snakes as intermediate hosts. In one trial, two ball pythons, Python regius Shaw, 1802 were force fed livers of laboratory mice previously inoculated with sporocysts of Hepatozoon ayorgbor Sloboda, Kamler, Bulantova, Voypka et Modry, 2007. Transmission was successful in these experimentally infected snakes as evidenced by the appearance of intraerythrocytic gamonts, which persisted until the end of trial, 12 months after inoculation. Developmental stages of haemogregarines were not observed in histological sections from mice. In another experimental trial, a presence of haemogregarine DNA in mice inoculated with H. ayorgbor was demonstrated by PCR in the liver, lungs and spleen.
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