DEVELOPMENTAL FORMS OF TRYPANOSOMA-BRUCEI IN THE SALIVA OF GLOSSINA-PALLIDIPES AND GLOSSINA-AUSTENI
DEVELOPMENTAL FORMS OF TRYPANOSOMA-BRUCEI IN THE SALIVA OF GLOSSINA-PALLIDIPES AND GLOSSINA-AUSTENI
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DOI:
10.1080/00034983.1947.11685305
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发表时间:
1947-01-01
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LANGRIDGE, WP
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作者:
LEWIS, EA;LANGRIDGE, WP
In the course of experiments on the transmission of Trypanosoma brucei by the tsetses Glossina pallidipes and G. austeni, we have observed in the'salivary'exudate of the flies a sequence of developing trypanosomes which explains, in greater detail than hitherto described, the changes that take place in the development of this trypanosome from the proventricular to the final infective stages. The sequence suggests modification of earlier conceptions of the life-cycle of T. brucei, particularly with regard to the derivation and nature of the forms which invade the salivary glands. Neither the pr. oventricular trypanosomes nor the long slender crithidia invade the glands to develop directly into flagellates which give rise to metacyclic trypanosomes. Completion of the life-cycle in the fly appears to be dependent on the development of the proventricular trypanosomes into peculiar post-proventricular forms, which give rise, by unequal fission recorded and illustrated by Lloyd (1930) as unusual forms from the mid-gut of G. tachinoides, to the long slender crithidia of earlier workers and to short crithidi. a. Mature infection of the fly is determined by the ability of the short crithidia to reach, and to become established in, the salivary glands.The tsetse-flies were reared from pupae collected in the coastal fly-areas of Kenya and from pupae deposited by laboratory-bred flies. They were fed every other day on animals reacting to a Mariakani-camel strain of T. brucei maintained at Kabete since September, 1944, and pa~ saged through a variety of vertebrate hosts by bites of infected tsetses and by inoculation of infected blood. The flies were starved for 48 hours on about the 14th day after the first feed on a reacting animal. They were then induced to'salivate'on a glass slide by a method somewhat similar to that adopted by Koch (1905), Bruce et a/.(1914), Lloyd and Johnson (1924), but improved, to facilitate examination of large numbers, by Burtt and Vanderplank (Vanderplank, 1944). Glass slides were warmed on a metal water-tank thermostatically controlled at 38-40 C.(100· 4-104· 0 F.). These slides were placed over a tube containing a single fly, which, in an attempt to probe the wa1m surface, deposited one or more drops of fluid-which collected at the tip of the proboscis--on to the slide.. The fluid or exudate dried readily, and was immediately fixed in methyl alcohol and stained with buffered Giemsa. Subsequent to the first probe, the exudate from each fly was examined at regular intervals of 48 hours, and the fly was fed immediately afterwards. We were thus able to pick out, at an early stage, individual flies in which the trypanosomes were in the process of developing. The sequence of development was deduced from the successive appearance and the relative numbers of