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KNOWLEDGE of the early development of Eimeria stiedae, before the appearance of trophozoites in the liver of its rabbit host, is remarkably scanty. After initial penetration of the duodenal epithelium by the sporozoites, the earliest observation of trophozoite formation has been 72 h after infection. The route of migration of the sporozoites during this period has long been a subject for speculation, and the most favoured theory has been passage to the liver from the mesenteric lymph node in the portal blood. Slater, Quisenberry and Fitzgerald1 gave support to this theory by reporting the presence of sporozoites in the mucosa after 5–9 h, free and in monocytes in the mesenteric lymph nodes and in monocytes in the peripheral blood 16–20 h after infection.
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Slater, L., Quisenberry, M. A., and Fitzgerald, P. R., Forty-fourth Ann. Meeting Amer. Soc. Parasitologists, Abstract 108, 53 (1969).
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OWEN, D. Life Cycle of Eimeria stiedae. Nature 227, 304 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/227304a0
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