Mushi E Z, Binta M G, Chabo R G, Ndebele R, Panzirah R
Botswana College of Agriculture, Gaborone.
J S Afr Vet Assoc. 2000 Dec;71(4):249-50.
The following parasites were found in apparently healthy pigeons kept in Sebele: a haemoprotozoan, Haemoproteus columbae (80%); endoparasite metazoan nematodes, Ascaridia columbae (30%) and Dispharynx spiralis (10%); a cestode, Raillietina sp. (80%) and coccidian oocysts (40%); 2 ectoparasites, namely the pigeon fly, Pseudolynchia canariensis (50%) and the louse, Columbicola columbae (30%). The pigeons also had highantibody titres, (1:256) to the protozoan parasite Toxoplasma gondii (100%). The latter infection in these domestic pigeons has public health implications.
一种血原生动物，鸽血变原虫（80%）；内寄生后生线虫，鸽蛔虫（30%）和螺旋咽线虫（10%）；一种绦虫，瑞利绦虫属（80%）和球虫卵囊（40%）；两种外寄生虫，即鸽蝇，加那利伪柔寄蝇（50%）和鸽虱，鸽嗜羽虱（30%）。这些鸽子对原生动物寄生虫刚地弓形虫的抗体效价也很高（1:256）（100%）。这些家鸽中的后一种感染具有公共卫生意义。
