The natural occurrence of Trypanozoon in domestic chicken in the Ivory Coast.
From a natural infected chicken (Gallus gallus var. domesticus) in the Ivory Coast trypanosomes were isolated using Mastomys natalensis as recipient animal. Trypanosomes were diagnosed as belonging to the subgenus Trypanozoon from its morphology and its infectivity for rodents. The stabilated stock was able to infect a laboratory chicken. The stock proved to be human plasma subresistant and showed electrophoretic patterns of three enzymes (ALAT III, ME I, PEP III) so far only seen in pig and dog originated Trypanozoon stocks from the same region surveyed. The discovery for the first time of chicken harbouring Trypanozoon has to be considered in epizootiology and epidemiology of trypanosomiases.
D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens / Q000469:parasitology*; D007560:Cote d'Ivoire; D011201:Poultry Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology; D014347:Trypanosoma brucei gambiense / Q000276:immunology; D014353:Trypanosomiasis, African / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology / Q000662:veterinary*