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The occurrence of Pneumocystis carinii in mice in England

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Annie Porter
Annie Porter
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Beit Memorial Research Fellow, Quick Laboratory, University of Cambridge.
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A fertile source of error in protozoology is to be found in the overlooking of the occurrence of mixed infections in a host. Two organisms, each independent of the other, may happen to coexist in the intestine of an insect or the blood of a vertebrate, the result being that the investigator may confuse stages in the life-cycles of parasites which are not related to each other. This source of error has led to unwarranted generalisations which have impeded scientific progress for years. Two examples at once come to mind—the trouble wrought by Schaudinn in 1904 in confusing the life-cycles of the protozoa found in the little owl, and the impediment put in the way of progress by the omission of certain workers to recognise that Crithidia grayi was not a part of the life-cycle of a trypanosome. The existence of mixed infections was overlooked in each case.

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Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , January 1916 , pp. 255 - 259
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1916

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