Further Studies on Trichomoniasis in Birds

Abstract

IN a recent publication Levine, Boley and Hester (1941) give a thorough review of the literature dealing with the infection of birds and mammals (inoculation into mice, rats and guinea pigs) with Trichomonas gallinae (= columbae). To the list of birds already known to have harbored this pathogenic Trichomonas they have added as new (experimentally infected) hosts the Bob-white, Canary, English Sparrow and duck (type not given). They were unable to infect two Ring-necked Pheasants and a Starling, and found nine freshly caught English Sparrows free from a natural infection with this trichomonad. It is the purpose of this paper to present the results of the examina- tion of a large series of various types of birds for the presence of T. gallinae. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS