Haemogregarina mansoni Sambon and Seligmann 1907, a parasite of the coachwhip snake (Masticophis flagellum) is redescribed on the basis of sporogonic stages obtained in the experimental vector Aedes aegypti and designated as Hepatozoon mansoni from hosts collected in north Florida. Gamonts average 14.7 × 4.7 (13–16 × 4–6) and are not recurved, with nuclei situated in the second quarter of the gamont. Erythrocyte cytoplasm is often thin, appearing partially dehemoglobinized, or contracted into a central mass with infected erythrocytes always distorted, longer, and more slender than uninfected cells. Sporogony occurred within the head and thorax of A. aegypti. Oocysts were spherical to ovoid, 144.2 × 126.1 (79–198 × 69–178), containing on average 29.2 (7–64) sporocysts. Sporocysts were spherical to ovoid, 33.1 × 29.8 (19–48 × 18–44), with 20.2 (12–32) sporozoites contained within. Experimental infection in Tantilla relicta produced gamonts that did not differ from those in M. flagellum, but dehemoglobinization and cytoplasmic contraction of the host erythrocyte did not occur, and persistent merogonic stages were not present in the tissues.
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August 01 2002
THE STATUS OF HAEMOGREGARINA MANSONI SAMBON AND SELIGMANN FROM ZAMENIS FLAGELLIFORMIS LAURENTI
Sam R. Telford, Jr.
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Sam R. Telford, Jr.
The Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611. afn52007@afn.org
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Sam R. Telford, III
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Sam R. Telford, III
The Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611. afn52007@afn.org
* Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health, 665 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115
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J. F. Butler
J. F. Butler
The Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611. afn52007@afn.org
† Department of Entomology and Nematology, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, University of Florida, P.O. Box 110620, Gainesville, Florida 32611-0620
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J Parasitol (2002) 88 (4): 783–785.
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Sam R. Telford, Sam R. Telford, J. F. Butler; THE STATUS OF HAEMOGREGARINA MANSONI SAMBON AND SELIGMANN FROM ZAMENIS FLAGELLIFORMIS LAURENTI. J Parasitol 1 August 2002; 88 (4): 783–785. doi: https://doi.org/10.1645/0022-3395(2002)088[0783:TSOHMS]2.0.CO;2
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