The Animal Parasites of ManFantham, Harold Benjamin
Science
The Animal Parasites of Man
Fantham, Harold Benjamin
Medical parasitology
More recently (1905–1907) two important organisms have been
described and included in this group, namely, _Neurosporidium
cephalodisci_[238] (Ridewood and Fantham) from the nervous system
of the prochordate, _Cephalodiscus nigrescens_, and _Rhinosporidium
kinealyi_ (or _seeberi_) from the septum nasi of man. In the case of
_Rhinosporidium_ and _Neurosporidium_, after the uninucleate spore
has grown into a multinucleate trophozoite, the latter segments into
uninucleate pansporoblasts, as in the preceding cases. A difference
then occurs, for each pansporoblast enlarges, its nucleus divides
and a “spore-morula” is formed. Thus a multinucleate pansporoblast
or spore-morula, divided into many uninucleate sporoblasts (spore
mother cells) is produced, and each sporoblast without further change
becomes a uninucleate spore.
[238] _Quart. Journ. Microsc. Sci._, li, p. 81.
The Haplosporidia have therefore been divided by Ridewood and Fantham
(1907)[239] into two sections:--
[239] See Fantham, _Brit. Assoc. Reports_, 1907, p. 553.
(1) The _Polysporulea_, wherein the pansporoblast gives rise to
a number of spores (nine or more), _e.g._, _Rhinosporidium_,
_Neurosporidium_.
(2) The _Oligosporulea_, wherein the pansporoblasts give rise
each to a few (four) spores or to only a single spore, _e.g._,
_Haplosporidium_, _Bertramia_, _Cœlosporidium_, _Ichthyosporidium_.
[Illustration: FIG. 110.--_Haplosporidium heterocirri._ Section
throughout wall of the Polychæte worm, _Heterocirrus viridis_, showing
various developmental stages of the Haplosporidium. × 550. (After
Caullery and Mesnil.)]
[Illustration: FIG. 111.--Haplosporidian spores. _a_, _b_,
_Haplosporidium heterocirri_. _a_, fresh; _b_, after immersion in sea
water; _c_, _d_, _Urosporidium fuliginosum_. × 1000. (After Caullery
and Mesnil.)]
*Rhinosporidium kinealyi*, Minchin and Fantham, 1905.
_Rhinosporidium kinealyi_, parasitic in man, must now be considered in
greater detail. This organism was found in nasal polypus in India, and
has since been recorded from the ear as small nodules in the external
auditory meatus. The Indian cases came from the neighbourhoods of
Calcutta and Madras, and the parasite has been seen in Ceylon. Similar
structures have since been described from the United States and South
America.
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