%0 Journal Article
%A Megia Palma, Rodrigo Manuel
%A Blázquez Castro, Sara
%A Barrientos Yuste, Rafael
%T Unusual double erythrocyte infection by heterogeneric parasites in the lacertid lizard Psammodromus algirus
%D 2023
%@ 2071-5773
%U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112694
%X The observation reported here is noteworthy because it represents a rare case of double heterogeneric (co)infection in a single host erythrocyte. The low frequency of these observations in the sample suggests that the co-occurrence of one Schellackia sporozoite and one Karyolysus gametocyte within a single host erythrocyte would not benefit either the parasites or the host. We conclude that it represents a stochastic event of single host cell coinfection.
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