Theobold Smith (23) in 1895 described an amoeboid protozoan parasite of turkeys which he identified as the aetiological agent of the disease enterohepatitis (blackhead). Smith tentatively described it as a species of enteric amoeba. Tyzzer (26) later suggested a definite classification for this organism in a new genus. The species name he proposed was Histomonas (gen. nov.) meleagridis (Smith 1895) Tyzzer, 1919. Incidence of the fatal condition referred to as enterohepatitis results in heavy annual losses to commercial turkey and poultry producers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.110021 |
| Date | January 1955 |
| Creators | McGregor, John. K. |
| Contributors | Cameron, T. (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science. (Department of Biology.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: NNNNNNNNN, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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