Haematozoa Found in Wild Members of the o Artiodactyla in East Africa

Abstract

During the last ten years we have been interested in the haematozoa (blood protozoa) of wild animals: since our stay in Kenya is drawing to a close we feel that we should now mention the various records that have accumulated. Our main concern was to discover whether the parasites were infective for domestic animals and this has been shown to be so in several instances. Most work has been done with the African Buffalo (Syncerus caffer Sparrman) and this animal was demonstrated to be a reservoir of East Coast Fever (Theileria parva infection).