The Animal Parasites of ManFantham, Harold Benjamin
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The Animal Parasites of Man
Fantham, Harold Benjamin
Medical parasitology
Found in agar cultures from the motions of patients at Weltevreden,
Dutch East Indies.[50] The flagellates are 12 µ long and 5 µ broad. The
lateral flagellum is stated to be attached to the cell body for a short
distance. Regarding the karyosome in the nucleus, the author states
that the smaller the karyosome the more chromatin is deposited on the
nuclear membrane. Flu mentions that the specific name _javanensis_ is a
temporary one, as in the course of time it may be shown that there is
only one species of _Prowazekia_.
[50] _Geneesk. Tijdschr. v. Nederl. Ind._, lii, p. 659; _Med. v. d.
Burg. Geneesk. d. Nederl. Ind._, iii, p. 1.
*Prowazekia cruzi*, Hartmann and Chagas, 1910.
Found in a culture from human fæces on an agar plate in Brazil, and
considered to be a free-living form.[51] The organism is oval or
pear-shaped, 8 µ to 12 µ long and 5 µ to 6 µ broad. In human stools
at Tsingtau, China, a _Prowazekia_ has been found by Martini which he
thinks is the same as _Prowazekia cruzi_. He considers it to be a cause
of human diarrhœa and intestinal catarrh.
[51] _Mem. Inst. Osw. Cruz._, ii, p. 64.
*Prowazekia weinbergi*, Mathis and Léger, 1910.
This species was found in the fæces of men, both healthy and diarrhœic,
in Tonkin.[52] It is pear-shaped, 8 µ to 15 µ long by 4 µ to 6·5 µ
broad. The flagella occur at the broad end.
[52] _Bull. Soc. Med. Chir. Indo-Chine_, i, p. 471.
The discoverers think that _Prowazekia weinbergi_ is an intestinal
inhabitant, but non-pathogenic, since it was found to occur in the
fæces even when obtained with aseptic precautions.
*Prowazekia parva*, Nägler, 1910.
A free-living form found in the slime on the stones at the biological
station at Lunz. Another _Prowazekia_ was found in 1914 in tap-water in
Calcutta.
Family. *Trypanosomidæ*, Doflein.
The Trypanosomidæ, broadly considered, are uniflagellate organisms,
the flagellum being at the anterior end. The flagellum arises near the
blepharoplast (kinetic nucleus), which lies anterior, near or posterior
to the nucleus.
The following genera will be considered:--
_Trypanosoma_--with an undulating membrane along the length
of the body.
_Crithidia_--with a less well-developed undulating membrane
anteriorly (see fig. 49).
_Herpetomonas_--including the so-called _Leptomonas_, with anterior
free flagellum only, and no undulating membrane.
_Leishmania_--non-flagellate forms in mammalian blood, flagellate
herpetomonad stages in culture, probably occurring
naturally in Arthropods.
Genus. *Trypanosoma*, Gruby, 1843.
The members of the genus possess a single flagellum, which arises
posteriorly, adjacent to a blepharoplast or kinetic nucleus. The
flagellum forms a margin to an undulating membrane, and may or may not
be continued beyond the body as a free flagellum. Many species are
parasitic in vertebrate blood and in the digestive tracts of insects.
HISTORICAL.
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