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Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) incertum from Pipistrellus pipistrellus: development and transmission by cimicid bugs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

R. A. Gardner  and
D. H. Molyneux
R. A. Gardner
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT
D. H. Molyneux
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Salford, Salford M5 4WT
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Summary

Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) incertum Pittaluga 1905 was found in 33 out of 206 Pipistrellus pipistrellus caught at various sites in Britain. The trypanosome is described from blood smears. Development took place in laboratory-reared Cimex pipistrelli and Cimex lectularius. Epimastigote forms initially multiplied rapidly in the ventriculus and midgut of Cimex. Metacyclic trypanosomes were found in the rectum of both species of Cimex after 8 days when bugs were maintained at 20 °C and as early as 3 days at 30 °C. Electron microscopy of infected bugs revealed that there was no attachment to epithelial cells of the ventriculus or midgut, but within the rectum epimastigotes were attached by their flagella to the cuticle of the rectum by hemidesmosomes. Transmission was achieved by feeding experimentally infected bugs to bats kept in the laboratory. These bats were negative as judged by xenodiagnosis using laboratory-reared Cimex. Bats which had been caught in the wild demonstrated low-grade or sub-patent parasitaemias (positive in xenodiagnosis) for up to 400 days after the day of capture. Despite an extensive search of impression smears of tissues immediately after trypanosomes first appeared in the blood of experimentally infected bats no multiplicative stages were found.

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Parasitology , Volume 96 , Issue 3 , June 1988 , pp. 433 - 447
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1988

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