A successful experimental infection of Culex quinquefasciatus with Hepatozoon sp. infecting Cerastes cerastes cerastes viper was carried out under laboratory conditions of 24± 3 C and 60-70 % R.H..The period monitored for complete sporogonic cycle was 21 days. The effect of high parasitimic blood meal was nonsignificant (P>0.05) on preoviposition period and hatchability. Meanwhile a highly significant reduction was observed in oviposition rate, number of deposited eggs, number of hatched larvae and longevity (P<0.01). On the contrary moderate infection with Hepatozoon revealed a great significant increase in fecundity (P<0.01) and a nonsignificant decrease in longevity (P>0.05).
RASHDAN, N., GALAL, F., & GAD-ALLAH, A. (2015). LABORATORY STUDIES ON THE POSSIBILITY OF CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS TO HARBOR HEPATOZOON SP. INFECTING CERASTES CERASTES CERASTES VIPER IN EGYPT. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 45(3), 521-524. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2015.96286
MLA
NAGWA A. RASHDAN; FATMA H. GALAL; ALAA F. GAD-ALLAH. "LABORATORY STUDIES ON THE POSSIBILITY OF CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS TO HARBOR HEPATOZOON SP. INFECTING CERASTES CERASTES CERASTES VIPER IN EGYPT". Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 45, 3, 2015, 521-524. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2015.96286
HARVARD
RASHDAN, N., GALAL, F., GAD-ALLAH, A. (2015). 'LABORATORY STUDIES ON THE POSSIBILITY OF CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS TO HARBOR HEPATOZOON SP. INFECTING CERASTES CERASTES CERASTES VIPER IN EGYPT', Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 45(3), pp. 521-524. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2015.96286
VANCOUVER
RASHDAN, N., GALAL, F., GAD-ALLAH, A. LABORATORY STUDIES ON THE POSSIBILITY OF CULEX QUINQUEFASCIATUS TO HARBOR HEPATOZOON SP. INFECTING CERASTES CERASTES CERASTES VIPER IN EGYPT. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology, 2015; 45(3): 521-524. doi: 10.21608/jesp.2015.96286
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