From 2005 through 2008, we screened 650 Oregon spotted frogs (Rana pretiosa) from three populations in central Oregon, USA, for hemoparasites. A Hepatozoon sp., not previously reported in R. pretiosa, was found in one population of frogs, mostly as intracellular gamonts at a prevalence of 10.5% with parasitemias ranging from 0.02% to greater than 42% of erythrocytes within individual frogs. Intra- and extracellular merozoites were present, but rare. A potential vector, the mosquito Culex boharti, was common throughout the habitat of the population carrying Hepatozoon sp.
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1 July 2010
First report of Hepatozoon sp. in the Oregon Spotted Frog, Rana pretiosa
Patricia L. Stenberg,
William J. Bowerman
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Journal of Wildlife Diseases
Vol. 46 • No. 3
July 2010
Vol. 46 • No. 3
July 2010
hemoparasites
Hepatozoon
Lankesterella
Oregon Spotted Frog
Rana pretiosa
Trypanosoma