| leucocytozoonosis in the israeli sparrow, passer domesticus biblicus hartert 1904. | among the 91 house sparrows (passer domesticus biblicus hartert, 1904) examined and caught in the jordan valley, israel, 79% were found to be infected with leucocytozoon fringillinarum woodcock 1910. in the coastal plain of israel (south of tel aviv), leucocytozoon infection was found in only 3 out of 43 examined sparrows. in the birds examined, leucocytozoon gametocytes were present, often in large numbers, in the circulating blood of the visceral organs, whereas they were only sporadic or even ... | 2005 | 15940526 |