TY - JOUR
AU - WOLFSON, FRUMA
AB - THE COMMON DUCK AS A CONVENIENT EXPERIMENTAL HOST FOR AVIAN PLASMODIUM B Y FRUMA WOLFSONi (Received for publication July 5th, 1938) Since the discovery of avian Plasmodium by Danilewski in 1885, a great deal of the experimental work in the field of malaria has been carried out on birds, particularly canaries. However, a need for a larger avian host has always been felt by the investigators. Laveran (1891) expressed this need only a few years after the discovery of avian Plasmodium. Some systematic work in search of a larger host for avian Plas- modium has been done recently in this country. For example, Man- well (1933) attempted to transmit various species of Plasmodium from canaries to chicks. His results were, on the whole, negative. Wolfson (1937b) was able to show that a new strain of P. cathemerium, recently isolated from a wood thrush (Wolfson, 1937a), could maintain itself in the great horned owl and pigeon for at least 6 weeks. It was easy to demonstrate the presence of Plasmodium in those hosts by subin- oculation of their blood into uninfected canaries, but usually more difficult to find the parasites by direct observation of the blood of the owl and 
TI - THE COMMON DUCK AS A CONVENIENT EXPERIMENTAL HOST FOR AVIAN PLASMODIUM
JO - American Journal of Epidemiology
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a118445
DA - 1938-09-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-common-duck-as-a-convenient-experimental-host-for-avian-plasmodium-aYk06v0icm
SP - 317
EP - 320
VL - 28
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
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