ABORTIVE DEVELOPMENT OF WUCHERERIA-BANCROFTI BANCROFTI IN A WEST-AFRICAN STRAIN OF CULEX-PIPIENS FATIGANS

  • 1 January 1978
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 29  (3) , 364-370
Abstract
The detailed morphology of the larvae of W. bancrofti developing in a refractory strain of C. pipiens fatigans from Liberia, West Africa, was described. The abortive development of the parasite in the thoracic muscles of the mosquito was characterized mainly by retardation or complete failure of initial division of the G-cell; partial or complete encapsulation of developing larvae; especially at the anal and excretory vesicle areas of late 1st-stage; breakdown of the forming internal structures with formation of clusters of DNA- and RNA-positive material; and anomalous development of some larvae in which extra-corporeal growth of internal tissues took place.