Study on trypanosomes of Sciuridae from Senegal: Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) heliosciuri sp. n. and Trypanosoma (Herpetosoma) xeri Leger and Baury, 1922.
This paper describes a new species of trypanosome, Trypanosoma (Megatrypanum) heliosciuri, from Heliosciurus gambianus gambianus, and gives a detailed description of T. (Herpetosoma) xeri Leger and Baury 1922, from Euxerus erythropus erythropus, all from Senegal, West Africa.
D000818:Animals; D001769:Blood / Q000469:parasitology; D012377:Rodentia / Q000469:parasitology*; D012675:Senegal; D013045:Species Specificity; D014345:Trypanosoma / Q000145:classification* / Q000166:cytology / Q000302:isolation & purification