THE RED-TAILED HAWK, BUTEO JAMAICENSIS, A NATIVE DEFINITIVE HOST OF FRENKELIA MICROTI (APICOMPLEXA) IN NORTH AMERICA

1 January 1992

journal article
Published by Wildlife Disease Association in Journal of Wildlife Diseases

Vol. 28 (1) , 85-90
https://doi.org/10.7589/0090-3558-28.1.85

Abstract

Oral inoculation of prairie voles, Microtus ochrogaster, with coccidian sporocysts isolated from the feces of a red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis, in Kansas, USA, resulted in formation of Frenkelia microti (Apicomplexa: Sarcocystidae) tissue cysts in the brains of the voles. Five additional isolates of morphologically similar sporocysts collected from red-tailed hawks or other Buteo spp. in Kansas failed to result in detectable infections in rodents. These results are the first to verify that red-tailed hawks are natural definitive host in North America for F. microti.

Keywords

APICOMPLEXA
JAMAICENSIS
DEFINITIVE HOST
MICROTI
BUTEO
FRENKELIA
TAILED HAWKS
RED TAILED

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