aegyptianellosis is a disease caused by small intraerythrocytic inclusions which is restricted to the areaof africa, asia and extreme southern europe. in this study the prevalence of aegyptianella spp. wasevaluated in four genera of domestic poultry in the northern, southern and central regions of lorestanprovince from april to september 2008. a total of 275 native adult birds including chicken...

Aegyptianellosis is a disease caused by small intraerythrocytic inclusions which is restricted to the areaof Africa, Asia and extreme southern Europe. In this study the prevalence of Aegyptianella spp. wasevaluated in four genera of domestic poultry in the northern, southern and central regions of Lorestanprovince from April to September 2008. A total of 275 native adult birds including chicken...

Blood parasites are often found in the blood smears of domestic and wild-caught birds [12,14]. Of these, a member of the family Anaplasmataceae, Aegyptianella (CARPANO, 1929) genus has been reported from domestic fowl, ducks, geese, turkeys, pigeons, quails, ostrichs and psittacine birds [9, 13,14]. The only named species is Aegyptianella pullorum, known in the past as Babesia pullorum or Balfo...

Bloodsmears were taken from separate groups of five helmeted guineafowls, Numida meleagris, shot at approximately monthly intervals at Skukuza and near Lower Sabie in the Kruger National Park during the period August 1988 to August 1990. Ninety-eight (86%) of 114 guineafowls had single or multiple infections of Aegyptianella sp., Haemoproteus pratasi, Hepatozoon sp., Leucocytozoon neavei, Plasm...

Aegyptianella botuliformis n. sp. (Rickettsiales: Anaplasmataceae) isolated from helmeted guineafowls Numida meleagris from the Kruger National Park is described. The rickettsia occurs within a membrane-bound vacuole in the cytoplasm of erythrocytes with up to 8 organisms in a mature inclusion. The initial body resembles that of Aegyptianella pullorum. The tightly packed, sausage-shaped interme...

The prevalence of avian haematozoa in 826 species of birds representing 73 families of sub-Saharan birds as recorded in the literature or in the files of the International Reference Centre for Avian Haematozoa and the Veterinary Research Institute is presented. The most commonly occurring blood parasites were members of the genus Haemoproteus which were represented by 63 species which occurred ...

Infection of young turkeys with Plasmodium durae produced a significant increase in the mean relative right ventricular mass from 0.172 in the controls to 0.208 in the infected group. Although turkeys react less strongly to hypoxia than broiler chickens, the similarity of this finding to that previously reported in broilers infected with Aegyptianella pullorum suggests that the hypoxic effect o...

Heparinized whole blood, parasitized with Aegyptianella pullorum, was collected from 2 fowls. Buffered lactose peptone (BLP) was added v/v as a stabilizer and the mixture lyophilized in 2 ml aliquots after rapid or slow freezing. At different stages during the freeze-drying process, as well as after lyophilization and reconstitution with 1.8 ml of sterile water, samples were taken and injected ...