REPORT ON A FUNGUS PARASITIZING ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA
- VernacularTitle:霉菌寄生于溶组织内阿米巴体内的观察
- Author:
Chengqi CAO
;
Yisheng FENG
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Chinese Journal of Parasitology and Parasitic Diseases
1987;0(01):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Infection of Entamoeba histolytica with chytridiaceous fungus Sphaerlta was observed in some specimens obtained from a farmer and stained with iron-haematoxylin. The fungi were found in 78% of tne cysts, mostly immature ones. Within the amoebae this parasite occurred singly, in groups, or in the form of a sporangium. It was located in the cytoplasm, the glycogen mass or the chromatoidal bars.In the same specimen, the parasitic fungus was also found in 18% of E. coli cysts; in 11% of E. nana cysts; while only one of 16 E. hartmanni cysts was parasitized.It is an interesting case of superimposed parasitism so far reported in China as well as a rare rase of several species of amoebae being heavily involved with the same in the scientific literarure.
