RT Journal Article
T1 Unusual double erythrocyte infection by heterogeneric parasites in the lacertid lizard Psammodromus algirus
A1 Megia Palma, Rodrigo Manuel
A1 Blázquez Castro, Sara
A1 Barrientos Yuste, Rafael
AB 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.
PB Societas Europaea Herpetologica
SN 2071-5773
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112694
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/112694
LA eng
NO Funding:RM-P enjoys a postdoctoral contract (CEECIND/04084/2017) provided by the Instituto de Ciências, Tecnologias e Agroambiente da Universidade do Porto and Fundação da Ciência e Tecnologia. SB-C holds a contract by CAM and NextGenerationEU Funds (27-UAH-INV).
NO European Commission
NO Comunidad de Madrid
NO Instituto de Ciências, Tecnologias e Agroambiente da Universidade do Porto
NO Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 27 abr 2025