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Amoebae found in the intestine of lizards from the Sudan

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

R. A. Neal
R. A. Neal
Affiliation:
Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine, London
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1. The morphology of an Entamoeba from the Sudanese lizards Mabuya quinquetaeniata, M. striata and Tarentola annularis is described. It was similar to Entamoeba coli of man.

2. It is referred to the species E. flaviviridis, Knowles & Das Gupta (1935).

3. An ‘Amoeba’ was observed in Tarentola annularis which was similar in size to the Entamoeba. The nuclear structure, however, was distinctive, with a very large karyosome and no peripheral chromatin. The cysts were uninucleate.

4. It is very similar to the organism described as Vahlkampfia reynoldsi by McFall (1926).

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Research Article
Information
Parasitology , Volume 44 , Issue 3-4 , November 1954 , pp. 422 - 427
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1954

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