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A new lizard malaria parasite Plasmodium intabazwe n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Haemospororida: Plasmodiidae) in the Afromontane Pseudocordylus melanotus (Sauria: Cordylidae) with a review of African saurian malaria parasites

Van As, Johann; Cook, Courtney A.; Netherlands, Edward C.; Smit, Nico J. (BioMed Central, 2016)

Background Saurian malaria parasites are diverse apicomplexan blood parasites including the family Plasmodiidae Mesnil, 1903, and have been studied since the early 1900s. Currently, at least 27 species of Plasmodium are ...

The distribution and host-association of a haemoparasite of damselfishes (Pomacentridae) from the eastern Caribbean based on a combination of morphology and 18S rDNA sequences

Sikkel, Paul C.; Cook, Courtney A.; Smit, Nico J.; Renoux, Lance P.; Bennett, Courtney L. (Elsevier, 2018)

Coral reefs harbor the greatest biodiversity per unit area of any ecosystem on earth. While parasites constitute the majority of this biodiversity, they remain poorly studied due to the cryptic nature of many parasites and ...

Hepatozoon species (Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) of African bufonids, with morphological description and molecular diagnosis of Hepatozoon ixoxo sp. nov. parasitising three Amietophrynus species (Anura: Bufonidae)

Netherlands, Edward C.; Cook, Courtney A.; Smit, Nico J. (BioMed Central, 2014)

Background Haemogregarines comprise a large group of apicomplexan blood parasites. In 1996 all anuran haemogregarines still in the genus Haemogregarina Danilewsky, 1885 were reassigned to the genus Hepatozoon Miller, ...

Reassignment of the land tortoise haemogregarine Haemogregarina fitzsimonsi Dias 1953 (Adeleorina: Haemogregarinidae) to the genus Hepatozoon Miller 1908 (Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) based on parasite morphology, life cycle and phylogenetic analysis of 18S rDNA sequence fragments

Cook, Courtney A.; Lawton, Scott P.; Davies, Angela J.; Smit, Nico J. (Cambridge University Press, 2014)

Research was undertaken to clarify the true taxonomic position of the terrestrial tortoise apicomplexan, Haemogregarina fitzsimonsi (Dias, 1953). Thin blood films were screened from 275 wild and captive South African ...

Redescription, molecular characterisation and taxonomic re-evaluation of a unique African monitor lizard haemogregarine Karyolysus paradoxa (Dias, 1954) n. comb. (Karyolysidae)

Cook, Courtney A.; Netherlands, Edward C.; Smit, Nico J. (BioMed Central, 2016)

Background: Within the African monitor lizard family Varanidae, two haemogregarine genera have been reported. These comprise five species of Hepatozoon Miller, 1908 and a species of Haemogregarina Danilewsky, 1885. Even ...

Developing an apicomplexan dna barcoding system to detect blood parasites of small coral reef fishes

Renoux, Lance P.; Cook, Courtney A.; Smit, Nico J.; Sikkel, Paul C.; Dolan, Maureen C. (American Society of Parasitologists, 2017)

Apicomplexan parasites are obligate parasites of many species of vertebrates. To date, there is very limited understanding of these parasites in the most-diverse group of vertebrates, actinopterygian fishes. While DNA ...

Redescription and molecular diagnosis of Hepatozoon theileri (Laveran, 1905) (Apicomplexa: Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae), infecting Amietia quecketti (Anura: Pyxicephalidae)

Netherlands, Edward C.; Cook, Courtney A.; Smit, Nico J.; Du Preez, Louis H. (Praha : Academia, 2014)

Blood smears prepared from the peripheral blood of 20 wild caught Amietia quecketti (Boulenger) from the North-West University Botanical Gardens, North West Province, South Africa, were examined for the presence of ...

First record of an intraleucocytic haemogregarine (Adeleorina: Haemogregarinidae) from South African tortoises of the species Stigmochelys pardalis (Cryptodira: Testudinidae)

Cook, Courtney A.; Smit, Nico J.; Davies, Angela J. (Taylor & Francis, 2014)

To date, four intraerythrocytic apicomplexans, namely the haemogregarines Haemogregarina fitzsimonsi and Haemogregarina parvula, and the haemoproteids Haemoproteus testudinalis and Haemoproteus natalensis, have been described ...

Monophyly of the species of Hepatozoon (Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) parasitizing (African) anurans, with the description of three new species from hyperoliid frogs in South Africa

Netherlands, Edward C.; Cook, Courtney A.; Du Preez, Louis H.; Brendonck, Luc; Smit, Nico J. (Cambridge Univ Press, 2018)

Haemogregarines (Apicomplexa: Adeleiorina) are a diverse group of haemoparasites reported from almost all vertebrate classes. The most commonly recorded haemogregarines to parasitize anurans are species of Hepatozoon ...

Morphological and molecular characterization of an African freshwater fish trypanosome, including its development in a leech vector

Smit, Nico J.; Joubert, Adri; Cook, Courtney A.; Lawton, Scott P.; Hayes, Polly M. (Elsevier, 2020)

Trypanosomes are ubiquitous blood parasites of fishes and at least 16 species were originally described infecting African freshwater fishes. This number was later reduced to six and in the late 1990s it was proposed that ...