| ultrastructural studies on the sporogony of hepatozoon spp. in culex quinquefasciatus say, 1823 fed on infected caiman crocodilus and boa constrictor from northern brazil. | laboratory reared culex quinquefasciatus say, 1823 originating from the vicinity of belem, in northern brazil, were allowed to engorge on caimans (caiman c. crocodilus) infected with hepatozoon caimani (carini, 1909) and boas (boa constrictor) infected with h. cf. terzii (sambon and seligmann, 1907) both from para state. engorged mosquitoes killed on successive days post-feeding (p.f.) were studied by transmission electron microscopy. images of oocysts from 13 days p.f., caiman-fed mosquitoes we ... | 2003 | 12954016 |
| hepatozoon cf. terzii (sambon & seligman, 1907) infection in the snake boa constrictor constrictor from north brazil: transmission to the mosquito culex quinquefasciatus and the lizard tropidurus torquatus. | specimens of hepatozoon-infected boa constrictor constrictor were obtained from localities in pará state, north brazil. gametocytes in erythrocytes of the peripheral blood measured 10 x 2.5-16.2 x 3.7 microns. they were similar to those described as haemogregarina terzii by sambon & seligmann (1907) in b. c. constrictor, in that they did not distort the infected erythrocyte, and their dimensions approximated those given by carini (1947). lungs and liver of infected snakes contained actively divi ... | 2004 | 15224579 |