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| Pierce, M.A.; Laurenson, M.K.; Gascoyne, S.C. | |
| Hepatozoonosis in the cheetah and wild dogs in the Serengeti ecosystem | |
| 1995 African Journal of Ecology (33): 273-275 | |
Hepatozoon spp. are apicomplexan parasites occuring in a wide range of mammals, birds, reptiles and amphibians. There are about 85 named species. The most common mammalian species is probably Hepatozoon canis occurring in domestic dogs in the tropic and sub-tropics where suitable tick vectors occur. Records of Hepatozoon from various African carnivores have frequently been described as being H. canis, and even some previously named species from specific hosts have been synonymized with the Serengeti carnivores, most recently. |
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