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DR. J. W. SCOTT MACFIE describes in Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology (vol. ix., No. 4) a number of interesting protozoa from Accra, West Africa. He records the occurrence of a piro-plasm—Nuttallia decumani, n. sp.—in the blood of brown rats, and gives an account of a case of amœbic dysentery in a monkey (Cercopithecus), in which numerous Entaœeba were present, together with a vast number of minute spirochætes. He designates as a new variety (var. equinum) a strain of Try-panosoma congoiense, chiefly on the ground that in many of the trypanosomes the trophonucleus lies near the anterior end. The clinical aspect of the disease produced by this. trypanosome in the original host—a mare—was also peculiar in that there appeared on the skin of the body raised disc-like patches or plaques, which, however, disappeared after about three days. Dr. Macfie also records observations on two mules suffering from a form of trypanosomiasis clinically resembling acute dourine, and states that in these cases infection by coitus—the usual method of transmission of this disease—may be excluded with certainty.
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Some Recent Studies on Protozoa and Disease . Nature 97, 18–19 (1916). https://doi.org/10.1038/097018a0
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