Studies on the experimental infection with microsporidia of the freshwater snail Radix quadrasi von Moellendorf, 1898 and the white mouse Musmusculus Linnaeus, 1758
1983
Garibay, J.L.R. | Enriquez, G.L. (University of the Philippines, Quezon City. Dept. of Zoology)
Experimental infection of snail and white mouse hosts was done. It was found out that microsporidian spores were phagocytosed by both snail hemocytes and mouse macrophages forming tight phagosomes containing one spore per phagosome. Most of the phagocytosed spores were digested intracellularly within loose phagosomes and very few underwent early stages of development. The schigosts were observed to adhere tightly to the phagosome membrane as they developed into mature sporonts. The most mature parasitic stage observed in the snail was the mature sporont stage, while it is sporoglast in mice. A lag period in the development of the parasite was observed in both experimental hosts
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