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lifeskim:mentions | |
pubmed:issue |
1
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pubmed:dateCreated |
1991-3-29
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pubmed:abstractText |
Feces from a juvenile specimen of the anteater Tamandua tetradactyla from Ponta de Pedras, Marajó, Pará, northern Brazil, contained three different coccidial oocysts: Eimeria tamanduae Lainson, 1968; E. corticulata Lainson & Shaw, 1990; and a third species previously unrecorded and described here as Eimeria marajoensis n. sp. Oocysts of the latter parasite are spherical to subspherical, 13.9 +/- 1.5 x 13.4 +/- 1.4 (11.1-16.5 x 11.1-16.5) microns, shape index (length/width) 1.0 (1.0-1.2). The oocyst wall is a single, colorless layer about 0.6-1.0 microns thick with no striations or micropyle. There is no oocyst residuum, but a single, round, oval or irregularly shaped polar granule of about 0.75-2.5 microns is consistently present. The sporocysts are broadly ellipsoidal, 7.1 +/- 0.7 +/- 5.3 +/- 0.6 (6.0-8.8 x 4.0-5.7) microns, shape index 1.3 (1.2-1.5), with a delicate wall bearing minute stieda body. No sub-stieda body was visible. The sporocyst residuum consists of some 10-20 rounded granules, lying between the two slightly curved sporozoites which measure approximately 6.5 x 2.0 microns. Sporocyst refractile bodies were not discernable.
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pubmed:language |
eng
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pubmed:journal | |
pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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pubmed:issn |
0022-3921
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pubmed:author | |
pubmed:issnType |
Print
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pubmed:volume |
38
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pubmed:owner |
NLM
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pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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pubmed:pagination |
28-30
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pubmed:dateRevised |
2006-11-15
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pubmed:meshHeading | |
pubmed:articleTitle |
Coccidia of Brazilian mammals: Eimeria marajoensis N. Sp. (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from the Anteater, Tamandua tetradactyla (Xenarthra: Myrmecophagidae).
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pubmed:affiliation |
Wellcome Parasitology Unit, Instituto Evandro Chagas, Fundação Nacional de Saúde, Belém, Pará, Brazil.
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pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article,
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
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