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The transmission of Spirochaeta duttoni

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

Edward Hindle
Edward Hindle
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(From the Quick Laboratory, University of Cambridge.)
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(1) About 30% of the O. moubata from Uganda have been found to be immune to infection with S. duttoni.

(2) When infected ticks are kept at ordinary temperatures (about 21°C). the following parts of the body are found to harbour the infection :—gut + contents, sexual organs, Malpighian tubules, excrement.

The following parts were found to be uninfective:—salivary glands, coxal fluid.

(3) When infected ticks are kept at a temperature of about 35°C. for two or three days previous to dissection, all the organs of the body, including the salivary glands, are found to be infective. Moreover the incubation periods that elapse before the appearance of spirochaetes in the injected mice are shorter than in the case of the corresponding experiments with ticks that had not been kept at a high temperature.

(4) No spirochaetes have been detected in any of the organs of infected ticks that had been kept at a temperature of about 21°C. When a tick ingests blood containing spirochaetes, the latter persist in the lumen of the gut for periods varying from a few days up to as long as four weeks; usually, however, they disappear from the gut in the course of nine or ten days.

(5) When infected ticks are heated to a temperature of 35°C. for two or three days, spirochaetes reappear in the lumen of the gut, and also appear in all the organs of the tick, and in the coelomic fluid.

(6) The spirochaetal infection that may follow the bite of an infected O. moubata results from the entrance of the infective material, excreted by the tick whilst feeding, into the open wound caused by the tick's bite. It is not the result of the inoculation of infective material from the salivary glands.

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Parasitology , Volume 4 , Issue 2 , June 1911 , pp. 133 - 149
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1911

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