STUDIES ON THEILERIIDAE (SPOROZOA) IN TANZANIA .5. PRELIMINARY EXPERIMENTS ON A NEW METHOD FOR INFECTING TICKS WITH THEILERIA PARVA AND THEILERIA MUTANS

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  • 1 January 1976
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 27  (4) , 422-426
Abstract
Bovine blood with a high parasitemia of T. mutans was injected through the cuticle into fully engorged nymphs of Amblyomma variegatum which had recently detached from a rabbit. After molting, they transmitted this parasite to a susceptible calf. Rhipicephalus appendiculatus transmitted T. parva in the same way, but resutls were negative with A. variegatum and T. parva. This method of infecting ticks appears promising for the isolation of Theileria strains from the field and might be useful in research on theilerioses.

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