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Toxoplasma ranae sp. n. from the Leopard Frog Rana pipiens Linnaeus*

NORMAN D. LEVINE

College of Veterinary Medicine, Agricultural Experiment Station and Department of Zoology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 U.S.A.

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RICHARD R. NYE,

RICHARD R. NYE

College of Veterinary Medicine, Agricultural Experiment Station and Department of Zoology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 U.S.A.

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NORMAN D. LEVINE,

NORMAN D. LEVINE

College of Veterinary Medicine, Agricultural Experiment Station and Department of Zoology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 U.S.A.

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RICHARD R. NYE,

RICHARD R. NYE

College of Veterinary Medicine, Agricultural Experiment Station and Department of Zoology, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801 U.S.A.

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First published: November 1976

https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1550-7408.1976.tb03821.x

Citations: 7

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This investigation was supported in part by Research Grant BMS-71-01294 AO3, from the National Science Foundation.

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SYNOPSIS. Toxoplasma ranae sp. n. is described from the brain of a leopard frog, Rana pipiens, probably from Mexico. Its pseudocysts were 72(55-106) × 48(29-70) μm in fixed sections. They contained an average of ∼ 4,000 slightly curved elongate zoites measuring 4–5 × 0.5 μm, with a central, spherical, vesicular nucleus.

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November 1976

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