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Intraerythrocytic schizogony of Theileria annulata

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

P. A. Conrad ,
B. G. Kelly  and
C. G. D. Brown
P. A. Conrad
Affiliation:
Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland
B. G. Kelly
Affiliation:
Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland
C. G. D. Brown
Affiliation:
Centre for Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Easter Bush, Roslin, Midlothian, Scotland
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The intraerythrocytic multiplication of two strains of Theileria annulata was studied with parasites maintained in stationary cultures and in the blood of infected cattle. In cultures established with blood from infected cattle 20–60% of single T. annulata piroplasms divided into quadruplet forms by day 6 in vitro. Transmission electron microscopic studies of T. annulata in culture showed that piroplasms possess intracytoplasmic food vacuoles and cytostomes during a pre-division trophozoite stage. The onset of intraerythrocytic multi plication was marked by the appearance of rhoptries and electron-dense plaques beneath the parasite's plasmalemmal membrane. The plaques developed into short segments of subplasmalemmal double membranes which were closely associated with the rhoptries. It was concluded that multiplication of T. annulata in erythrocytes occurred by schizogony, as nuclear division preceded cytoplasmic division and the final separation of merozoites. The four merozoites produced by intraerythrocytic schizogony had the same ultrastructural features as the T. annulata merozoites produced by intralymphocytic schizogony. Clusters of four merozoites, identical to those observed in stationary cultures, were also seen in the erythrocytes of persistently infected cattle and appeared to represent the most significant dividing forms of T. annulata in vivo.

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Parasitology , Volume 91 , Issue 1 , August 1985 , pp. 67 - 82
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1985

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