| the transmission of an avian filarioid cardiofilaria nilesi to the jird, meriones unguiculatus. | this paper reports the experimental transmission of a bird parasite into jirds. infective larvae of cardiofilaria nilesi obtained from laboratory colonized coquillettidia crassipes mosquitoes which had fed on an infected chicken were inoculated subcutaneously into jirds. the number of larvae per jird varied from 10 to 228. microfilaraemia appeared 22 to 89 days after inoculation of the infective larvae. experiments were carried out with 24 jirds through six generations extending over a period of ... | 1987 | 3437114 |