Saurian malaria: development of sporozoites in two species of phlebotomine sandflies.
Sporolzoites of a lizard malaria parasite, Plasmodium mexicanum. developed in two spcies of sandfly-Lutzomyia vexatrix and Lutzomyia stewarti. Salivary g1ands were infected 11 days after the flies took an infective blood meal. This is the first report of a malaria parasite undergoing sporogonic development In an insect other than a mosquito and the first description of lizard malaria sporogenesis.
D000818:Animals; D007303:Insect Vectors; D008116:Lizards; D008288:Malaria / Q000209:etiology*; D008675:Metamorphosis, Biological; D010691:Phlebotomus; D010961:Plasmodium