| intraerythrocytic rickettsial inclusions in ocoee salamanders (desmognathus ocoee): prevalence, morphology, and comparisons with inclusions of plethodon cinereus. | reports of an unusual intraerythrocytic pathogen in amphibian blood have been made for decades; these pathogens appear as membrane-bound vacuoles within erythrocytes. it is now understood that the pathogen is a rickettsia bacteria, which are obligate intracellular parasites, and most are transmitted by arthropod vectors. in an effort to further understand the host range and characteristics of this pathogen, we examined 20 ocoee salamanders (desmognathus ocoee) from a site in southwest north caro ... | 2010 | 20422220 |
| variable infection of stream salamanders in the southern appalachians by the trematode metagonimoides oregonensis (family: heterophyidae). | many factors contribute to parasites varying in host specificity and distribution among potential hosts. metagonimoides oregonensis is a digenetic trematode that uses stream-dwelling plethodontid salamanders as second intermediate hosts in the eastern us. we completed a field survey to identify which stream salamander species, at a regional level, are most likely to be important for transmission to raccoon definitive hosts. we surveyed six plethodontid species (n = 289 salamanders) from 23 appal ... | 2015 | 26026670 |