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Blood Parasites of Mammals in New Zealand

Introduction

Introduction

Little attention has been paid to the study of mammalian haematozoa in New Zealand. Apart from Doré's (1918) record of Trypanosoma lewisi (Kent) from rats in various parts of the North Island, the only references to mammalian blood parasites in this country are those of Gilruth (1909), who recorded Anaplasma-like bodies both free in the plasma and within the red corpuscles of pigs, and of Reakes (1913), who noted an infection of (Microfilaria) = Dirofilaria immitis in a dog quarantined at Auckland.

The results of the examination of blood smears from 494 mammals of 15 species (13 introduced and 2 indigenous) during the period 1947–1949 are detailed in the following pages.